3 Men and a Baby

3 Men and a Baby (1987)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1987-11-27

Country

United States

Production

Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III, Interscope Communications

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$11 000 000

Revenue

$167 780 960

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Director

Leonard Nimoy

Actors

Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Margaret Colin, Camilla Scott, Philip Bosco, Colin Quinn, Christine Kossak, Paul Guilfoyle
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Scenario

Producer

Ted Field, Robert W. Cort, Jean-François Lepetit

Operator

Adam Greenberg

Composer

Marvin Hamlisch

Artist

Audition

Dianne Crittenden

Editing

Michael A. Stevenson
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• The Pampers company paid $50,000 for product placement of their diapers.
• Director Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) reviewed video footage of approximately two thousand twins vying for the role of Mary before choosing Lisa and Michelle Blair. Before settling on them, he personally met with four pairs of twins.
• Towards the end of filming, the babies playing Mary had grown accustomed to the unfamiliar actor 'uncles' and shifted their attention to the microphone. They began to follow the microphone with their eyes, rather than the actors. The crew had to resort to various tricks to hide the microphone from the babies’ view.
• When a call for 100 extras for a party scene in the hero's house was announced for Tom Selleck, over 5,000 applicants expressed their interest, hoping to either land a role as an extra or at least catch a glimpse of Selleck or another actor. 4,900 women who were not selected as extras never saw Selleck or anyone else, as the actors were on a different set at that time. The chosen hundred women had to 'mingle' at the party with Selleck for four days while the scene was being filmed.
• During the two-week rehearsal period before filming began, then-single Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg took married Ted Danson with them on a spree. The idea was to visit several nightclubs, bars, and restaurants in Toronto to get better acquainted with the roles of bachelors they were to play. Wherever they went during this spree, they caused a sensation.