Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Ernestine Moller Gilbreth Carey (; April 5, 1908 – November 4, 2006) was an American writer.

Early life and education Ernestine Moller Gilbreth was born in New York City on April 5, 1908. She was the daughter of Frank B. and Lillian (Moller) Gilbreth, early scientific management experts and early 20th-century pioneers of time and motion study and what would now be called organizational behavior. The third oldest of twelve children (eleven of whom lived to adulthood), Gilbreth grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, in an unconventional household.

Frank Gilbreth suffered a fatal heart attack on the eve of Ernestine's high school graduation, which delayed Ernestine's college plans by a year, as the family's finances dictated that her mother return to work immediately, carrying on the work she and her husband did as industrial/management consultants. and Giddy Moment (1958), though none of them would come close to the popularity of Cheaper by the Dozen.

Works

All are semi-autobiographical novels.

Cheaper by the Dozen] series (with Frank Gilbreth Jr.):

Stand-alones:

Adaptations Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), film directed by Walter Lang, based on novel Cheaper by the Dozen Belles on Their Toes (1952), film directed by Henry Levin, based on novel Belles on Their Toes Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), film directed by Shawn Levy, based on novel Cheaper by the Dozen Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005), film directed by Adam Shankman, based on novels Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on Their Toes Cheaper by the Dozen (2022), film directed by Gail Lerner, based on novel Cheaper by the Dozen