name this movie...i cant remember!

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

Ok, I grew up loving this movie but cant remember the name. I want to buy it so I can show it to my kids as they grow up. I dont recall any particularly famous actors in it...it is probably responsible for my early obsession with red hair...

It has an all red head cast...no not seven brides for seven brothers... it was made in the late forties or early fifties and its set in the 1910s and is about a family with 3 or four boys. I remember the father has a temper and the mother is always placating him. The father hates this rubber plant and a porcelain figurine of a pug dog the mother buys...uh, a brunette girl the age of the oldest son stays with the family for a while and the two like eachother...the middle boy sells a bunch of miracle cure elixer to a bunch of people as a means of earning money and it makes everybody ill...the father makes him buy it all back...anyway, its such an enjoyable funny film...its up there with cheaper by the dozen (the first one) and Swiss family Robinsons.

Help me with the name...anybody

 

[dainerra]

It's called "Life With Father"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039566/

 

[dainerra]

you might also like "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"
and "Mister Hobbes Takes a Vacation"


My daughter is 17 and a bit "weird" in that her favorite movies are "Paint Your Wagon" and "7 Brides for 7 Brothers" lol

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

Aaaaaaaaa! Thannk youuuuu! I'm so grateful....now I can buy it's ive been trying to figure this out for weeks! You are awesome!

 

[dainerra]

it was my husband. I got as far as the porcelain pug and he knew it.

It does have a couple big stars Irenne Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor. Also William Powell

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

I own please don't eat the daisies...I find the boys antics at the apartment amusing...I have quite a few of Doris day's films.... I like by the light of the silvery moon and calamity Jane a lot too. I grew up on this stuff....these older films...I cant get enough still.

 

[dainerra]

I'm thinking I'm going to have to watch "Belles on their toes" sequel to cheaper by the dozen

 

[NovaAman]

I love Turner Classic Movies channel. Where else can you find the great movies! I was watching a movie, B/W, a few weeks ago that had Charles Bronson in it. He looked OLD even in the late 50s... Well anyway, they even on occasion play movies from the 20s, but a lot of 30s and 40s movies. They just do not make movies like that anymore. Now movies are for the eyes... Ok not all...

 

[Sore Thumb Suburbanite]

it was my husband.   I got as far as the porcelain pug and he knew it.

It does have a couple big stars Irenne Dunne and Elizabeth Taylor.  Also William Powell

That's right....its been a really long time since ive seen it...I totally forgot the brunette, as I called her was Elizabeth taylor! Oops! Yeah, she is kind of a big deal, huh? Since seeing cat on a hit tin roof, ive had a bit of a reverence for her...what an amazing dynamo!

I am ordering "life with father" now....
when I first hot married, I bought a rubber tree plant because it made me think of this movie and laugh. Then I started looking for a porcelain pug and I really don't do nick knacks. I 'm nuts.