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Since "Life with Father" was written, the father-figure has become one of the commonest targets in American humor. Frank Gilbreth, the head of the household in "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a typical autocrat--an efficiency expert who started married life with a determination to have twelve children and forthwith realized this goal. Like all his predecessors in the history of household autocracy, Gilbreth's strongest quality is his refusal to be cowed by the social practices of his neighbors. The movie's funniest scenes center around his demands that the women in the family wear bathing suits that...
Under the benevolent tyranny of Father Frank Gilbreth, an efficiency expert, the brood motors from Providence, R.I. to its' new home in Montclair, N.J., swarms into school, undergoes a whooping-cough epidemic, a mass tonsillectomy, a visit from a lady apostle of birth control. The oldest daughter (Jeanne Grain) wages a long uphill fight on father's prejudices against hair-bobbing, lipstick and dates with boys. Mother, torpidly played by Myrna Loy, takes a back seat but comes into her own when father dies...
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...using motion pictures or merely his own good naked eye, Efficiency-Expert Gilbreth studied everything his children did or had done to them. He analyzed their dishwashing and typewriting; when they had their tonsils removed, he brought a cameraman in to photograph the whole thing. He learned how to save time and energy not only for his own family but for workers in the firms that employed...
Perhaps because the co-authors collaborated by mail (Frank Jr. lives in Charleston, S.C., sister Ernestine in Manhasset, N.Y.), their product lacks unity and presents the reader with only the haziest notion about the chronology of the Gilbreth tribe's doings. Though father Gilbreth often sounds (and sounds off) like father Day, Cheaper by the Dozen lacks the literary merits of its wise, well-honed predecessor. Mother Gilbreth's firm character is made clear (she still lives in Montclair, runs her husband's business and was 1948's "Woman of the Year"). But the personalities...