Cheaper by the Dozen
Walter Lang, 1950
Cheaper by the Dozen
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., 1948
Cheaper by the Dozen is a movie directed by Walter Lang in 1950 and based on the book of the same name by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., first published in 1948. The movie features Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates, and others.
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Storyline
The ypical days in the lives of a family in the 1920s, but here with 12 children and an efficiency engineer as the parent. Frank employs his unorthodox teaching methods on his children, and there are clashes between parents and children. Frank takes every opportunity to study motion and increase efficiency, including filming his children’s tonsillectomies to see if there are ways to streamline the operation.
Movie vs Book
Year
1950
Minutes
86
Movie Rate
7.00
Source: IMDb
Movie
Cheaper by the Dozen
Director: Walter Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1950
Length: 1h26m
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Year
1948
Pages
292
Book Rate
8.00
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Book
Cheaper by the Dozen
Country: USA
First published in: 1948
Length: 292 pages
Genre: Biography
Book series: Cheaper by the Dozen
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“Making the book into a television show makes it feel so much more real and so much more like a real rock documentary.”
TAYLOR JENKINS REID (Writer)
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