Belles on Their Toes
The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and Ernestine find romance.
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"Belles On Their Toes takes us through the further adventures of the Gilbreth family after the loss of the family patriarch Clifton Webb in Cheaper By The Dozen. Webb has left Myrna Loy with quite the large family to raise on her own now. Webb was a real life and well known industrial efficiency expert and Loy has had the same training. The big issue for her is acceptance in a man's world and she has a rough go of it. She does however make an ally and a convert of industrialist Edward Arnold and a bit more than that with him. Loy however is mostly in a mother role and she's there fo..."
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The film is a sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), which also depicted the adventures of the real-life Gilbreth family, whose father and mother, Frank and Lillian, reared 12 children. As shown in the film, after Frank's death, Lillian continued his work in order to keep her family together and eventually became a very successful industrial engineer. Several of the actors from "Cheaper by the Dozen", including Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain and Barbara Bates, reprised their roles, but some of the boys from the original cast, having grown too much to reprise their roles, were recast as older Gilbreth boys, such as Jimmy Hunt, who originally played "William" but played "Fred" in the sequel.
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The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and Ernestine find romance.