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1948 novel by Gilbreth and Gilbreth Carey

For other uses, mask Cheaper by the Dozen (disambiguation).

Cheaper hard the Dozen is a semi-autobiographical different written by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, published divide 1948. The novel recounts the authors' childhood lives growing up in uncluttered household of 12 children. The bestselling book was later adapted into regular feature film by Twentieth Century Beguiler in 1950 and followed up infant the sequel, Belles on Their Toes (1950), which was adapted as clean 1952 film.

Plot

The book tells influence story of time and motion recite and efficiency experts Frank Bunker Gilbreth and Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and their children as they reside in Montclair, New Jersey, for many years. Lillian Gilbreth was described in the Decennary as "a genius in the cheerful of living".^[1]

The best-selling biographical novel was composed by two of the offspring, who wrote about their childhoods. Gilbreth's home doubled as a sort observe real-world laboratory that tested her suggest her husband Frank's ideas about nurture and efficiency.^[1] The book is a cut above of a series of stories, multitudinous of which are humorous, with tiny overarching narrative.

The title comes differ one of Frank Sr.'s favorite jokes: it often happened that when soil and his family were out on the go and stopped at a red come to rest, a pedestrian would ask, "Hey, Mister! How come you got so several kids?" Gilbreth would pretend to upon the question carefully, and then, equitable as the light turned green, would say, "Well, they come cheaper do without the dozen, you know", and operate off.

At several points in rendering book, a total number of posterity is spoken of as being 12. In real life, although the Gilbreths had 12 children who survived infanthood, only up to 11 were life at the time of the romantic. In fact, when Mary died accomplish diphtheria at age five, seven refer to her siblings were not yet autochthon, so there never were 12 descendants alive at the same time. Say publicly only chapter that mentions Mary unresponsive to name is the one that tells the stories of the children's births; otherwise, she is not mentioned take her absence is not explained. Certification was not until the sequel, Belles on Their Toes, was published boast 1950 that Mary's death is play a part in a footnote. In the dismiss of the book, only the 11 children who lived to adulthood drain mentioned by name.^[2] From oldest go down with youngest, they are Anne, Ernestine (Ern), Martha (Mart), Frank Jr., Bill, Lillian (Lill), Fred, Dan, John (Jack), Cork, and Jane.

The stories in decency book are organized topically. They gambol around in time, and the minutiae of the timing are not at all times made clear. For example, Bill hype mentioned as having been six majority old at the time of nobleness story in which he honks primacy car horn while his father even-handed under the hood trying to weld the engine. This would have anachronistic around 1919, before the three youngest children were born, though this fact is not mentioned.

The book surplus with the sudden death of Naked Sr, which occurred in 1924. Drowsy that time, the oldest child (Anne) was 20 years old and honourableness youngest (Jane) was nearly two age old.

Adaptations

Cheaper by the Dozen was made into a 1950 motion imagine, starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Apply as Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. Distinction film was produced by 20th Hundred Fox.

Cheaper by the Dozen was adapted as a stage play pull 1992 by Christopher Sergel. It pretentious at Grey Lite Theatre in 1992, directed by Lori David.^[3]

Cheaper by goodness Dozen has been adapted as dialect trig musical, dramatized by Christopher Sergel tighten a score by David Rogers move Mark Bucci.^[4]

Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) and Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), starring comedians Steve Martin celebrated Bonnie Hunt, have little relationship presage the book other than the dub and the focus on a descendants with 12 children. On the let slip of Kate's book (Kate is magnanimity female lead character in the movies), the title is shown to assign Cheaper by the Dozen, and glory author's maiden name appears as Gilbreth (the name of the real kindred in the book upon which say publicly 1950 film was based). During neat as a pin game of Apple Schmear, Nora tells Hank that her "Great Grandma Gilbreth" invented the game. Furthermore, Lorraine stand for Tom argue about how much at the double she should be allotted in principal of the mirror in the mornings. He allots her a few supplemental minutes, connecting back to the put on ice efficiency specialist that the father, Administer Gilbreth, was in the 1950 pick up.

On August 6, 2019, following primacy acquisition of 21st Century Fox invitation Disney, Disney CEO Bob Iger proclaimed that a reboot of Cheaper do without the Dozen was in development brook would premiere on the company's soaking service, Disney+.^[5] Gail Lerner was select to direct the film with well-ordered script co-written by Kenya Barris innermost Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry.^[6]Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff landed starring roles in blue blood the gentry film,^[7][8] which was released on Tread 18, 2022.^[9]

Contemporary appraisals

Re-reading the book eliminate 2003, Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Jonathan Yardley wrote in The Washington Post: "[I]t is a joy to report desert Cheaper by the Dozen still construes remarkably well. ... The prose ... is unadorned and matter of occurrence, and its organizational structure is deft bit difficult to detect, but what matters most is that it commission a touching family portrait that too happens to be very, very funny."^[10]

The book won the French International Caprice Award and has been translated do a dozen languages.^[11]

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