History Trivia / MrsDoubtfire

** The musical acknowledges this, by having Daniel hack Miranda's email password, so that all of the nanny applications would route to him, and Miranda wouldn't see any decent ones. And then calling in as the fake applicants he created from a presumably blocked number. Similarly, Mrs Doubtfire gets the kids to do their homework at first by turning off the WiFi and parental blocking their phones until they finish.

** The movie's ending changed several times. The first script had [[spoiler:Daniel and Miranda becoming AmicableExes]] as they do in the finished film. The original scriptwriter was fired, and a different ending was rewritten [[spoiler:where they remarry]]. This was changed after executives realized that they didn't want to give off the message that [[spoiler:all divorced parents eventually get back together]].

* RealLifeRelative: Creator/RobinWilliams' brother plays the bartender in the pool scene.

** The movie's ending changed several times. The first script had [[spoiler: Daniel and Miranda becoming AmicableExes]] as they do in the finished film. The original scriptwriter was fired, and a different ending was rewritten [[spoiler: where they remarry]]. This was changed after executives realized that they didn't want to give off the message that [[spoiler: all divorced parents eventually get back together]].

* DeletedRole: Polly Holliday's part as the antagonistic next door neighbor, Gloria Chaney, was originally a prominent supporting character and had a much larger role in the film. Due to time constraints, most of her scenes were cut. As a result, Gloria is only seen at the film's beginning and briefly in the background during the Mercedes Benz scene, and BillingDisplacement results when a throwaway character with just one line is listed more prominently in the credits than several principals. (All of her deleted scenes were included as special features on DVD.)

* DevelopmentHell: Harvey Fierstein wrote a stage musical adaptation in 2015, with music by Music/AlanMenken. It finally opened in early-2020... only to almost immediately close due to the pandemic shutdown. Although it did reopen in late 2021, struggling ticket sales forced it to close for good in early 2022.

** As of November 2013, this movie is played on the E! Network at least once a week.
** As of 2019, Freeform loves to show the movie multiple times a week.

* TheCastShowoff: Creator/RobinWilliams has always been famous for his impersonations - and this is a movie revolving around it where he impersonates a Scottish, female Mr. Rogers.

* DevelopmentHell: Harvey Fierstein wrote a stage musical adaptation in 2015, with music by Music/AlanMenken. It finally opened in early-2020. . . only to almost immediately close due to the pandemic shutdown. Although it did reopen in late 2021, struggling ticket sales forced it to close for good in early 2022.

* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Harvey Fierstein and Scott Capurro as Daniel's brother Frank and his boyfriend Jack respectively.

** Robin William's character walks off the set after he's forced to play a cartoon character who smokes. Around this time, Williams was in a very acrimonious feud with Disney over the fact that they used him for marketing to promote ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', which he explicitly tried to stop them from doing. They even went so far as to sabotage the production of ''WesternAnimation/FernGully'', which Williams also worked on, just so he could devote his energies to ''Aladdin''.
* StillbornFranchise: Talk of a sequel began in 2003, with a script being written by Bonnie Hunt. Creator/RobinWilliams was set to return in disguise as an old nanny like in the first movie. Due to problems with the script, re-writing began in early 2006 as Robin was allegedly unhappy with the plot. The film was expected to be released in late 2007, but following further script problems, the sequel was declared "scrapped" in mid 2006. The sequel's story was originally said to involve Williams, as Mrs. Doubtfire, moving close to his daughter's college, so he could keep an eye on her. Serious discussions regarding the sequel re-ignited in April 2014, with an announcement that Robin Williams and Chris Columbus would be teaming up with Fox 2000 to produce the sequel. Williams' sudden death just four months later ultimately sealed the project's fate once and for all. No one replaced him either.

** Chris Columbus tried to get a sequel off the ground for a long time (despite the source novel not having any), but Robin Williams was unsatisfied with every script. In a tragic twist, it finally did get some forward momentum in 2014, but Williams' suicide that year naturally ended any chance of it, as Columbus felt it'd be impossible to find [[TheOtherDarrin anyone else]] who could match Williams' talent.

* DevelopmentHell: Harvey Fierstein wrote a stage musical adaptation in 2015, with music by Music/AlanMenken, which he's been trying to get off the ground ever since.

* MoneyDearBoy[=/=]AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/PierceBrosnan's career had entered a slump and he was in need of paying work when he landed the role of Stu. The fact that he got to work with Creator/RobinWilliams and Creator/SallyField was an amazing bonus.

** The movie's ending changed several times. The first script had [[spoiler: Daniel and Miranda becoming AmicableExes]] as they do in the finished film. The original scriptwriter was fired, and a different ending was rewritten [[spoiler: where they remarry]]. This was changed after executives realized that they didn't want to give the UnfortunateImplications that [[spoiler: all divorced parents eventually get back together]].