Cheaper by the Dozen

On the data. THREE FAMILIES SHARE THIS TITLE AND ONLY TWO FILMS ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER. That is the whole point of this page. The Gilbreths, 1948 to 1952, are real people and their story is told once, properly. The Bakers of 2003 and 2005 are an invention of Craig Titley's with a borrowed title. The 2022 Bakers are different people again. The lineages touch at exactly two points and both are credits rather than content: 2003 borrows the title and a maiden-name joke, and 2022 borrows the 2003 surname and story credit. There are only two real sequels in the whole set, 1950 to 1952 and 2003 to 2005, and neither crosses between families. WHAT THE 2003 FILM ACTUALLY IS, SOURCE BY SOURCE, because they genuinely do not agree and this page is not going to pretend they do. The AFI Catalog calls it an adaptation of the novel and never mentions the 1950 film. Wikipedia calls it a remake of the 1950 film and then says in the next breath that it has little connection with the source material. Variety, writing at the time, called it an update and said it is as far from the original film and its memoir source as it can be while keeping the title. Roger Ebert refused the label and just called it the 2003 version. So the paperwork says adaptation, the encyclopedias say remake, and the critics who watched it say neither. This page follows the content: a new story under a borrowed title. AND THE 2022 FILM REMAKES 2003, NOT 1950. Disney's own press release calls it a fresh take on the 2003 hit family comedy and in the same document carries a based-upon-the-novel credit, which is a contractual line rather than a description. Disney's news site says a reimagined and completely new take on the 2003 family hit and does not mention 1950 or the book at all. Only Wikipedia connects it back to 1950, and it does so by assuming a chain rather than by pointing at evidence. THE BOOK YEARS ARE CONTESTED. The AFI Catalog's source notes and a surviving first edition both give 1948 for Cheaper by the Dozen and 1950 for Belles on Their Toes, which is what this page carries. Encyclopedia.com gives 1949 and 1951. The Wikipedia franchise page gives 1952 for Belles on Their Toes, which looks like a straight confusion with the 1952 film. A STAGE VERSION EXISTS AND IS NOT DATED HERE. Christopher Sergel dramatised the book for Dramatic Publishing, and it was later turned into a musical with a score by David Rogers and Mark Bucci. The commonly quoted year of 1992 could not be confirmed against any source that is not a Wikipedia snapshot, and the publisher's own page gives no year, so no year is given here. It is not a row because it is a performance licence rather than something to watch. YOURS, MINE AND OURS IS NOT PART OF THIS, and it is the commonest confusion. The 1968 film and its 2005 remake come from the real-life Beardsley family, a completely different household. The Brady Bunch is sometimes called an influence and adapts nothing here. NOTHING NEW SINCE MARCH 2022. No television series has ever been made, no made-for-television version, no short, and nothing has been announced.

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