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Belles on Their Toes (1952)
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May 1952 (USA) morePlot:
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Not As Fun As The First Film But Acceptable moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeanne Crain | ... | Ann Gilbreth | |
| Myrna Loy | ... | Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth | |
| Debra Paget | ... | Martha Gilbreth | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | ... | Dr. Bob Grayson | |
| Edward Arnold | ... | Sam Harper | |
| Hoagy Carmichael | ... | Thomas George Bracken | |
| Barbara Bates | ... | Ernestine Gilbreth | |
| Robert Arthur | ... | Frank Gilbreth | |
| Verna Felton | ... | Cousin Leora | |
| Carol Nugent | ... | Lily Gilbreth | |
| Tina Thompson | ... | Jane Gilbreth - as a Child | |
| Teddy Driver | ... | Jack Gilbreth | |
| Tommy Ivo | ... | William Gilbreth | |
| Jimmy Hunt | ... | Fred Gilbreth | |
| Anthony Sydes | ... | Dan Gilbreth |
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Belles on Their Toes: The Further Adventures of the Gilbreth Family (UK) (long title)more
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Sam Harper: [hearing muffled explosion] What on earth was that?Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth: The childern have a chemistry set in the cellar.
Sam Harper: Smells like alcohol.
Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth: Mr. Harper, alcohol is a chemical.
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Featured in Hollywood Remembers: Myrna Loy - So Nice to Come Home to (1991) (TV) moreSoundtrack:
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Cheaper by the dozen was the first story involving the Gilbreth family and was headed by Frank Gilbreth, played by Clifton Webb. He died at the end of the first movie as he gave charge of the family to his wife, Lillian Gilbreth played by Myrna Loy. This film probably would have been a little more inspiring if it had centered on the strength of Mrs Gilbreth overcoming the odds of raising a dozen children and a dog during a time when woman were not as accepted in a "man's world of business." But this film was a comedy, so it centered on the teenage daughters and their love lives. Jeannie Crain plays Ann Gilbreth, the only daughter shown getting married but only after finally accepting the idea that children grow and leave home. This was a tightly knitted family and this was how they overcame many difficult times. The ending entails a fine salute to the man that would have loved to have seen his children all grown up as an aged old mother Gilbreth remembers the many memories that will never leave her heart. A job well done by Mrs Gilbreth.