Trivia / Three Men and a Baby

• Development Hell: A third movie, tentatively titled Three Men and a Bride, has been listed as "in development" for some time with no actual progress.
• Directed by Cast Member: The Canadian French dub for both movies was directed by Vincent Davy, who also voiced Peter Mitchell.
• Fake Brit: American Nancy Travis as Sylvia, Mary's mother.
• Never Work with Children or Animals: Toward the end of filming, the babies that played Mary were less entranced by the actors around her, and became more interested in the microphone. She would start to follow it with her gaze, and not look at the actors. Leonard Nimoy and other crew members had to start hiding the microphone and disguising it from the baby's view.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: When Jack's mother comes to visit Mary, you can see in the background what appeared to be a little boy standing in a doorway. There is a rumor that this is the ghost of a little boy who died in the apartment in which the film was shot. This rumor is false, as the interiors were all shot on a soundstage in a movie studio. The "ghost" is actually a cardboard cut-out of Jack wearing a tuxedo. This prop appeared later in the movie, when Mary's mother comes to collect her.
• Sleeper Hit: It became the highest grossing film of 1987, taking in $167 million (the equivalent of over $394 million in 2021) on just a $11 million budget.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Chevy Chase, Robert Deniro, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Jack Nicholson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger were considered for the part of Peter Mitchell before Tom Selleck was cast.
  • Tom Hanks, Michael Keaton, Rick Moranis, John Travolta, and Bruce Willis were considered for the role of Michael Kellam before the casting of Steve Guttenberg.
  • Jeff Daniels, Tony Danza, Michael J. Fox, Danny Glover, John Heard, Kevin Kline, Christopher Lloyd, Gary Oldman, Bill Pullman, Christopher Reeve, and Dennis Quaid were considered for Jack Holden before Ted Danson was cast.
  • The party scene at the beginning of the movie was going to start differently. One of the extras was going to be on the phone in the lobby, hang up, and then be followed into the party. The extra was unable to get the shot right, and so that entry was scrapped.
  • In the original screenplay, Jack was an airline pilot and Paul Millner had a larger role. The overall film was originally intended for adults, as there was much more cursing, a big animosity between Peter and Michael. Also, when Peter returns with the formula, originally Michael then went out to Safeway to get the diapers, which Peter forgot.

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