One big, happy family! Cheaper by the Dozen has been given the movie treatment more than once, but the upcoming Disney+ remake will be unlike any past adaptation.Cheaper by the Dozen started out as a 1948 semi-autobiographical book by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr.
and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The authors based the novel on their experiences growing up in a family with 12 children. The title stemmed from the joke that their parents had so many kids because they came “cheaper by the dozen.”The book served as inspiration for a 1950 family comedy film of the same name.
The movie was set in the 1920s and starred Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Barbara Bates and more.A remake of the original film was released in 2003. Steve Martin and Bonnie
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