Cheaper By the Dozen : Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain, Betty Lynn, Edgar Buchanan, Barbara Bates, Mildred Natwick, Sara Allgood, Walter Baldwin, Betty Barker, Benny Bartlett, Lovyss Bradley, Walter Lang, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Frank B. Gilbreth Jr., Lamar Trotti

Description This colorful depiction of life in a family of 12 children stars Clifton Webb as Frank Bunker Gilbreth, an eccentric father who prides himself on some truly unorthodox child-rearing methods.

Based on the bestseller by two children of the real Mr.

Gilbreth, this charming film co-starring Myrna Loy is "alive with big laughs" (Los Angeles Times).

Narrated by the oldest daughter (Jeanne Crain), the story follows a series of family crises over the years: from how the children overwhelmed their new school's administration office, to the time they threw a hospital into chaos when they arrived for a mass tonsillectomy.

There's even a memorable encounter with a birth control advocate.

Simultaneously hilarious and sentimental, "Cheaper by the Dozen is a family comedy in the truest sense.