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When Edward is on top of the bus, the people riding on tour buses next to him laughing and pointing at
him weren't extras, but real tourists.

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Idina Menzel, a Broadway veteran and Tony Award winner, does not sing in the movie. In an interview,
Menzel stated she felt flattered to be hired solely as an actress.

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The law firm where Robert Philip (Patrick Dempsey) works is Churchill, Harline, and Smith, the surnames
of the songwriters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

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The wedding dress that Giselle (Amy Adams) wore weighed forty-five pounds. A stunt double taught
Adams how to move in the dress. She described it as "gruelling" since "the entire weight was on my hips,
so occasionally it felt like I was in traction."

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Several non-singers made their singing debuts in this movie, including Patrick Dempsey. The only main
character who does not sing is Nancy, played by Idina Menzel - who has two Tony award nominations
and one win for Broadway musical singing roles.

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The actresses who provided the voices for three previous animated Disney Princesses made
appearances in this movie: Jodi Benson ("Ariel" in The Little Mermaid (1989)), Paige O'Hara ("Belle" in
Beauty and the Beast (1991)), and Judy Kuhn as the title character's singing voice in (Pocahontas (1995)).
Also, Dame Julie Andrews, who starred as the title character in Disney's live-action Mary Poppins (1964),
provided her voice here as The Narrator, and Idina Menzel, who played Nancy, voiced Queen Elsa in
Disney's Frozen (2013) and Frozen II (2019).

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In one scene, Prince Edward rides a bus through Times Square. In the background a large poster can be
seen advertising the musical play "Wicked", which originally featured Idina Menzel, who played Nancy in
this movie, in the starring role. Furthermore, Stephen Schwartz, who was the lyricist for this movie, was
the composer and lyricist for Wicked (2009). The poster of Superman Returns (2006) can also be seen, in
which James Marsden appeared.

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Over three hundred actresses auditioned for the role of Giselle. Amy Adams was number two hundred
seventy-five.
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The scene director Kevin Lima found the most challenging to shoot was the musical number "That's How
You Know" in Central Park. The five-minute scene took seventeen days to finish due to the changing
weather, which allowed only seven sunny days for the scene to be filmed. The filming was also
hampered at times by Patrick Dempsey's fans.

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Hailing from Andalasia, Giselle displays similar traits to the Disney Princesses. Director Kevin Lima
describes her as "about eighty percent Snow White, with some traits borrowed from Cinderella (1950)
and Sleeping Beauty (1959), although her spunkiness comes from Ariel of The Little Mermaid (1989)."

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Disney had originally planned to add Giselle to the Disney Princess line-up, as was shown at a 2007 toy
fair where the Giselle doll was featured with packaging declaring her with Disney Princess status, but
decided against it when they realized they would have to pay for life-long rights to Amy Adams' image.