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Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, is a story about family—but not just any family. A family with a dozen children. The co-authors are siblings and were inspired by their own experiences in a hectic household.
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Summaries. Myrna Loy plays the wife of the persnickety father of her 12 children, Clifton Webb, who has uniquely humorous methods for dealing with the ordeals such an unwieldy family undoubtedly encounters.
The autobiographical book details the eventful life of Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Frank Bunker Gilbreth, as well as their twelve children. Frank and Lillian are both accomplished workers in their field – Frank is an industrial engineer and Lillian is a psychologist.
Synopsis. Ann Gilbreth, the oldest of the twelve children of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, begins to relate some episodes from her family's history. In 1921, when Ann is sixteen, the family lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where her father, an industrial engineer, is also an efficiency expert utilizing time and motion studies.
- Walter Lang
- Clifton Webb
Complete summary of Frank Gilbreth Jr., Ernestine Gilbreth Carey's Cheaper By The Dozen. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Cheaper By The Dozen.
Turn-of-the-century family comedy based on the book by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, which chronicled life in the expansive Gilbreth household—12 children, efficiency expert father Frank (Webb), and psychologist mother Lillian (Loy).
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 American comedy film based upon the autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) 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.
