Belles on Their Toes (1952)

Directed by

Henry Levin

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widowed mother raises her large family of twelve children with determination and humor. The story follows the family as they navigate daily life and challenges after the father's death.

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What happens

Belles on Their Toes is a 1952 American family comedy film directed by Henry Levin and starring Jeanne Crain, Myrna Loy, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter and Edward Arnold. The screenplay was written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron based on the autobiographical book Belles on Their Toes (1950) by siblings Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. Belles on Their Toes is a sequel to the film Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), which is based on Gilbreth and Carey's eponymous 1948 book. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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