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Cheaper By the Dozen. Presented to Students of W.F. Burns Middle School. Cheaper by the Dozen. Plot Summary for Cheaper by the Dozen ( 1950 )
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Cheaper By the Dozen Presented to Students of W.F. Burns Middle School
Cheaper by the Dozen • Plot Summary for Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) • "Cheaper By the Dozen", based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island, to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of motion study, and often used his family as guinea pigs (with amusing and sometimes embarrassing results). He resisted popular culture,railing against his daughters' desires for bobbed hair and comsmetics.