Book title: Cheaper by the Dozen
Author: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Film director: Robert Simonds
Crosspatch Artist: Autocorrect
Bookdrop location: Buon Giorno, Forth Worth, TX
Bookdrop date: 5/2/2015
Reference: Original | Non-horrible cover
Note:
Amazon's description of the book:
What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father -- a famous efficiency expert -- who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen.
Amazon's description of the movie:
While raising twelve children, a middle-aged couple decides to pursue more demanding careers -- only to discover that big families and big careers are a difficult mix.
It is worth noting that the book was the basis of a 1950 movie of the same title starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, and it proved to be one of the more faithful adaptations of a book we have ever seen. The 2003 movie has nothing in common with the book except the title and the presence of 12 children.
The book begins:
Dad was a tall man, with a large head, jowls, and a Herbert Hoover collar. He was no longer slim; he had passed the two-hundred-pound mark during his early thirties, and left it so far behind that there were times when he had to resort to railway baggage scales to ascertain his displacement.
And now we get Steve Martin on the cover.