Cheaper by the Dozen - DVD

Contains the films Cheaper By the Dozen and Cheaper By the Dozen 2.

Clifton Webb stars in this lighthearted comedy as a patriarch who has more children than he can count on both hands. Along with his loving wife, played with dry humor by Myrna Loy, Frank Gilbreth must contend with the problems of five fathers. This includes a mass tonsillectomy and the eldest daughter's adolescent crises; her lack of a date to the school dance is solved skillfully by Dad, who takes her himself! Based on the true story of Frank and Lillian Gibreth's child rearing adventures as they were depicted in the book written by two of their children, CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN is directed with a refreshing post-war optimism by Walter Lang. Though the huge family must be run with a workmanlike, though comic, efficiency, it is Dad's charm and love for his offspring keeps the family together.

Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor reprise their father/daughter roles in this sequel to the popular Father of the Bride. This time around Stanley Banks (Tracy) finds himself resisting the idea of becoming a grandfather, and soon finds himself in a series of comical misadventures involving his new grandson. Legendary director Vincente Minnelli shot this charming family film in a mere 22 days in 1950, the same year he directed his classic An American in Paris. The cast includes Joan Bennett, Billie Burke, and a 14-year-old Russ Tamblyn.