Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)

Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 Technicolor film based upon the 1948 autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe growing up in a family with twelve children in Montclair, New Jersey.

The story opens with typical days in the lives of a family in the 1920s withchildren and an efficiency engineer as the parent. This includes scenes where Frank employs his unorthodox teaching methods on his children, classic clashes between conservative parents and childrens desire for more freedom flashier clothing, make up, etc.. Frank takes every opportunity to study motion and increasing efficiency, even filming his childrens tonsillectomies to see if there are ways to streamline the operation.After Franks death, the family agrees that Lillian will continue with her husbands work this enables the family to remain in their house the alternative is to move to their grandmothers in California although, with a widowed working mother and one income, the children will have to assume much greater responsibilities. ........

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