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Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)

Cheaper by the Dozen poster
Directed by
Walter Lang
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
G
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 88 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A husband and wife raise their twelve children in a busy household. The father uses efficiency methods from his work to manage the family.

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What happens

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 life in a family with twelve children in Montclair, New Jersey. The story of the Gilbreth family is continued in the book Belles on Their Toes, which was adapted as a film in 1952, with some of the original cast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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