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FILM 1315: THE PRINCESS DIARIES

TRIVIA: The picture of Mia's deceased father next to her music box is actually Anne Hathaway's real life father. He also appears to be writing the letter to her while fishing.

When Mia accidentally sets the man's arm on fire, the flames were supposed to go out when he puts his arm in the ice bucket, but they didn't. Anne Hathaway panicked and threw the glass of water on it, which was not scripted.

Anne Hathaway's movie debut.

One of the waiters in the scene when Mia drops something at the dinner says, "It happens all the time." The same actor played a waiter in Pretty Woman (1990), and also said the exact same line when Julia Roberts' character flings the snail and the waiter catches it. Both films were directed by Garry Marshall.

The director, Garry Marshall, told Anne Hathaway to gain a bit of weight to portray a full figure role model.

This movie was filmed on Stage 2 in Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the same stage in which the film Mary Poppins (1964) was shot. The stage has since been named in honor of Julie Andrews, who starred in both films. The rental house that Julie Andrews lived in while filming Mary Poppins (1964) was lived in by Garry Marshall while filming this movie.

While filming the final celebratory dance scene, the Madonna song "Like A Prayer" was played on a boom-box to elicit natural dancing from the actors on set (to be then dubbed over by the song that appears in the film's final cut). The assistant director had to do multiple takes of this scene because the actors kept mouthing the words to "Like A Prayer" while on camera.

Kathleen Marshall, who plays the role of Charlotte, is the director Garry Marshall's daughter.

Mia's dress from the dinner party (the periwinkle one) is a copy of the dress that Kronprinsessan Victoria of Sweden wore to the Nobel Prize gala in 1997.

Produced by Whitney Houston.