Kate & Leopold - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Kate & Leopold or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Kate & Leopold

[clayton]

Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber have both appeared in films based on Marvel Comics.

[michele]

The violin piece being performed during Kate and Leopold's rooftop dinner is Jascha Heifetz's transcription of Leopold Godowsky's "Alt-Wien", or "Old Vienna". Godowsky subtitled his work, originally written for solo piano, "Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile through tears".

[fred]

In an early version of the screenplay, Leopold is accidentally transported through time in an actual time machine developed by a group of scientists that includes Kate. They have a child (of whom Leopold is unaware) and eventually reunite during the Roaring '20s.

[veronica]

According to the DVD commentary, several of the film's actual crew members appear in the crew of the margarine commercial.

[miriam]

Both this and The Greatest Showman (2017) featured the unfinished Brooklyn Bridge.

[bernard]

Hugh Jackman took etiquette lessons from 19th-century etiquette expert Jane Gibson (who trained actors for such projects as Sense and Sensibility (1995)). He also studied ballroom dancing and trained to ride a horse for the film.

[tamara]

There is 2 different versions of Kate & Leopold available on the DVD menu. One is the theatrical version which runs for 113 minutes where the other one is a directors cut which is 7 minutes longer than the original version. The only differences between the two is Kate can be seen in 1876 at the very beginning as well as a surprise cameo by James Mangold at a movie conference. There is also the implication that Kate is a distant relation to Stuart.

[sophie]

Albany, New York was named after the then Duke of Albany in 1664.

[leo]

Sandra Bullock was originally in contention for the part of Kate.

[nicholas]

In Kate & Leopold, Meg Ryan pays a character named 'Kate' again. In 1995, she played a 'Kate' in French Kiss (1995); In the 1998 movie You've Got Mail (1998), she played "Kathleen", whose nickname is Kate; In the 1995 movie Restoration (1995) she was "Katharine", another Kate.

[bernice]

When Leopold wakes up in Stuart's apartment for the first time, he accidentally turns on the television, and an episode of The Prisoner (1967) is on.

[ethel]

The movie foreshadows when Kate visits Leopold's home three times. First time is where Leopold and Kate are taking a walk in New York and Leo spots his homeplace,where the other is when Kate attends her speech for her Vice President role. The last one was where Kate goes back to 1876 to be with Leopold.

[melinda]

This marks Hugh Jackman's second romantic comedy. Someone Like You (2001) was his first. This also marks Jackman's fourth Hollywood movie.

[bryan]

Viola Davis has a minor part as police officer who gives Hugh Jackman a ticket. Twelve years later, they would co-star and play family friends in the film Prisoners (2013).

[cassandra]

Film debut of Kristen Schaal.

[norma]

Enchanted borrows elements off this film. Giselle is like Leopold she's from a different time frame. Robert is like Kate where he starts off as a cynic and later tones down. Both charcthers don't get on and then they do. Only difference is that it's not a musical(Kate and Leopold) and Kate goes back to Leopold's time frame

[albert]

When Leopold is chasing Stuart down the stairs and out of his house, Stuart seems to jump a few meters in a second. In the "Director's Cut" version, the two guys actually bump into Kate there.

[charlie]

Hugh Jackman was 31 while Meg Ryan was 39 while filming.

[sophie]

Also on the wall of Stuart's apartment is a Spanish-language poster for the movie "Cerebro Atomico" ("The Atomic Brain"), starring Gene Nelson. Although this 1955 film is known to American audiences as The Atomic Man (1955), the movie's original title was "Timeslip," which is appropriate for this film. (The other, more visible Spanish-language movie poster in Stuart's apartment is "Yo Nombrare Al Asesino" (I'll Name the Murderer (1936).)