Genre	Comedy :: Drama :: Family
Date Released	31 March 1950
Production	Lorimar Television
Distribution	American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
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Trivia and Quotes

Quotes

Repairman: All those kids yours mister, or is this a picnic? Frank Gilbreth: They`re all mine and believe me, it`s no picnic!

Man on street: Hey Noah, what are you doing with that Ark? Frank Gilbreth: Collecting animals like the good Lord told me brother. All we need now is a jackass. Hop in!

Mailman: All those kids yours? Frank Gilbreth: Oh, these aren`t so many. You ought to see the ones we left behind. Mailman: How you ever feed `em? Frank Gilbreth: Oh, they come cheaper by the dozen.

Frank Gilbreth: No person with inner dignity is ever embarrassed.

Frank Gilbreth: Darling, you know I am happy with our little brood, but you should have had more boys! Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth: I`m sorry, dear. I`ll try to be more careful with the next dozen.

Trivia

advertisement * Based on the real-life Gilbreth family. Daughter Mary died from a childhood illness; the movie includes a Mary but keeps her somewhat in the background with no lines.

The big house the family moves to in Montclair is the same house set originally built for Judy Garland`s family in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Fox didn`t have an appropriate standing outdoor set so they rented time on the "St. Louis Street" on MGM lot #2.

In the movie, the last child born is a boy named "Robert". But in real life, the last Gilbreth child was a girl named "Jane". There was a son named Robert, but he was the second-to-last child born.

On the shelf in the living room is a picture of the real life Frank Gilbreth in uniform as an Army Major during WWI. This is visible outside the makeshift operating room during the mass tonsillectomies.

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