Cheaper by the Dozen (1950 film)
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| Directed by | Walter Lang |
| Screenplay by | Lamar Trotti |
| Based on | Cheaper by the Dozen 1948 novel by Ernestine Gilbreth Carey Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. |
| Produced by | Lamar Trotti |
| Starring | Clifton Webb Jeanne Crain Myrna Loy Betty Lynn Edgar Buchanan Barbara Bates Mildred Natwick Sara Allgood |
| Narrated by | Jeanne Crain |
| Cinematography | Leon Shamroy |
| Edited by | James Watson Webb Jr. |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | 20th Century Fox |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.7 million |
| Box office | $4.3-4.425 million (U.S. and Canada rentals) |
Cheaper by the Dozen is a 1950 American comedy film based upon the autobiographical book Cheaper by the Dozen (1948) by Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. The film and book describe life in a family with twelve children in Montclair, New Jersey.
The story of the Gilbreth family is continued in the book Belles on Their Toes, which was adapted as a film in 1952, with some of the original cast.