40 Fun Facts About Look Who's Talking

Which star, paid a share of the gross on top of his salary, voices baby Mikey in Look Who's Talking?

Bruce Willis voiced Mikey's wisecracks a year after Die Hard made him an action hero. His cut of the takings was estimated to be worth over $10 million.

What is John Travolta's character James doing for a living when he first meets Mollie in Look Who's Talking?

Driving a taxi is how James meets Mollie: he speeds her through city traffic while she is in labour, then gets mistaken for the father at the hospital.

What is Mollie's profession in Look Who's Talking, the job that brings her married client Albert into her life?

Accountant Mollie has an affair with Albert, one of her firm's clients, and tax season later forces her to work with him again after Mikey is born.

Which actor voices Rocks, the scruffy street mutt the family adopts in Look Who's Talking Now?

Danny DeVito voices Rocks, a stray that James names after the mess the dog leaves on the back seat during the ride home.

Which sitcom star voices newborn Julie, Mikey's sarcastic baby sister, in the sequel Look Who's Talking Too?

Roseanne Barr took the part at the height of her own hit sitcom, and the performance earned her a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actress.

Look Who's Talking gave John Travolta his most successful film in eleven years, since which earlier hit?

Grease came out in 1978. Look Who's Talking went on to gross $297 million worldwide, the fourth-biggest total of any 1989 release.

In Look Who's Talking, what does James unknowingly pour into his coffee while minding newborn Mikey?

Breast milk is what James takes for the ordinary kind, a blunder Mollie overhears from the next room while she changes.

In Look Who's Talking Too, John Travolta's James delights a roomful of toddlers by dancing like which music legend?

Elvis Presley is the model: James breaks into Jailhouse Rock moves at the baby gym, and two of the singer's own recordings play on the soundtrack.

Kirstie Alley made Look Who's Talking while starring as Rebecca Howe in which long-running NBC sitcom?

Cheers had cast Alley as bar manager Rebecca Howe in 1987, and the role won her an Emmy in 1991, between the second and third talking-baby films.

Look Who's Talking is set in New York City, but which Canadian city hosted the entire shoot?

Vancouver doubled for Manhattan to trim the budget enough to cover Travolta's fee, with Stanley Park standing in for Central Park.

Which filmmaker, who had earlier directed National Lampoon's European Vacation, wrote and directed Look Who's Talking?

Amy Heckerling worked through ten drafts of the script with the studio, and the finished film became the biggest hit of her career.

Which veteran actor plays Albert, Mollie's married lover and Mikey's biological father, in Look Who's Talking?

George Segal, an Oscar nominee for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, plays the self-absorbed Albert and returned to the role in the third film.

Which Oscar-winning actress plays Mollie's mother Rosie in all three Look Who's Talking films?

Olympia Dukakis had just won her Oscar for Moonstruck, and only she, Travolta and Alley appear in every film of the trilogy.

Which veteran character actor plays Vincent, James's grandfather in a nursing home, in Look Who's Talking?

Abe Vigoda, best known as Tessio in The Godfather and Fish in Barney Miller, plays Vincent, whose move to a better home sets the plot going.

Which comedian gives an uncredited voice to newborn Julie in the closing scene of the first Look Who's Talking?

Joan Rivers was also rumoured to have written some of Mikey's best lines, and a different star took over as Julie's voice in the sequel.

Which side job of James in Look Who's Talking mirrors John Travolta's own off-screen passion?

Flight instructor James is building up hours to turn professional, and Travolta himself qualified as a pilot rated to fly Boeing 707 and 747 jets.

What does James offer Mollie in return for using her Manhattan address in Look Who's Talking?

Babysitting seals the deal: James needs the address to move his grandfather into a better nursing home, and Mikey soon decides James should be his father.

Which Oscar winner voices Daphne, the pampered pedigree dog given to the family in Look Who's Talking Now?

Diane Keaton voices Daphne, who starts out looking down on the household's other dog and ends up fetching the rangers who rescue the family.

Which Bee Gees hit from John Travolta's Saturday Night Fever turns up again on the Look Who's Talking soundtrack?

Stayin' Alive shares the soundtrack with the Beach Boys, Talking Heads and Janis Joplin, twelve years after Travolta strutted to it as Tony Manero.

Look Who's Talking beat Back to the Future Part II and which other hit to a 1990 Kids' Choice Award?

Batman lost out as Nickelodeon's young voters named the talking-baby comedy Favorite Movie, and Kirstie Alley was nominated for Favorite Movie Actress at the same ceremony.

Which comedy director voices Mr. Toilet Man, the talking toilet that frightens Mikey in Look Who's Talking Too?

Mel Brooks makes a voice cameo as the toilet Mikey fears will bite him, a night-time terror the toddler has to face down on his own.

Which In Living Color star voices Eddie, Mikey's advice-giving playmate, in Look Who's Talking Too?

Damon Wayans got the part late: producers recast Eddie after test audiences reacted badly to the first actor's recording.

What emergency do Mikey and baby Julie escape by themselves at the climax of Look Who's Talking Too?

A kitchen fire starts from a towel on the stove while their uncle is off chasing a burglar, and Mikey gets his little sister out via the elevator.

Which sitcom star took over the infant voice-over for the ABC television spin-off of Look Who's Talking?

Tony Danza voiced baby Mickey while also starring in Who's the Boss?, and the spin-off replaced nearly all of its on-screen cast after one season.

What breed is Daphne, the well-trained dog James's boss gives the family in Look Who's Talking Now?

Poodle Daphne arrives as a purebred show-off, then learns to enjoy roaming the city off the leash with the family's stray.

After losing her job in Look Who's Talking Now, what seasonal work does Kirstie Alley's Mollie take?

A holiday elf in a department store is the only work Mollie can find after company cutbacks, just as James's new boss starts keeping him away from home.

Which NBA star, voted the league's MVP that same year, appears as himself in Look Who's Talking Now?

Charles Barkley made the cameo in 1993, the year he was voted MVP and led the Phoenix Suns to the NBA Finals.

In Look Who's Talking Now, what does young Mikey stop believing in after sneaking into a store break room?

Santa Claus loses Mikey's faith when the boy catches the store's actor without his beard, and a mysterious radio broadcast of sleigh bells wins it back.

What forgotten item of Mollie's lets James track her down after Mikey's birth in Look Who's Talking?

Her purse is left behind on the frantic ride to the hospital, and James bringing it back is what leads to their unlikely arrangement.

Which stand-up comic earned a Razzie nomination partly for playing the baby-gym owner in Look Who's Talking Too?

Gilbert Gottfried shared the Worst Supporting Actor nomination across three 1990 films, the others being Problem Child and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

Twink Caplan, Mollie's best friend Rona in Look Who's Talking, later played teacher Miss Geist in which teen comedy?

Clueless came from the same writer-director, a friend Caplan had worked with on earlier projects, and Miss Geist is the teacher Cher plays matchmaker for.

The writer-director of Look Who's Talking made her feature debut with which 1980s teen comedy?

Fast Times at Ridgemont High arrived in 1982, with Sean Penn as surfer Jeff Spicoli and Nicolas Cage and Forest Whitaker in early screen roles.

In Look Who's Talking, Mollie blames Vincent's bad behaviour at the nursing home on too much of what?

Sugar is the culprit Mollie names, winning Vincent a second chance at the home just before James turns up to thank her.

How did the makers of Look Who's Talking film the scenes of unborn Mikey inside Mollie's womb?

Puppets in water tanks did the job: teams of puppeteers worked the fetus models, and one shot needed 115 takes before being cut from the film.

What Italian surname does John Travolta's James carry in Look Who's Talking, one that Mollie takes in the sequels?

Ubriacco becomes the whole family's name once the couple marry: Mikey, a Jensen in the first film, goes by it in both sequels.

Which comedy legend first recorded Eddie's voice for Look Who's Talking Too, before test screenings prompted a recast?

Richard Pryor took the job after People magazine had tipped Arsenio Hall for it, but test audiences responded poorly and the part was recorded again.

Which star was first attached to voice Daphne in Look Who's Talking Now but left to make The River Wild?

Meryl Streep dropped out of negotiations when she signed for the rafting thriller, so the dog's dialogue went to another Oscar winner.

Early script drafts for Look Who's Talking Now explained Kirstie Alley's absence as Mollie in what way?

She had died in the first drafts, leaving the children to find their father a new wife, until executives judged that wrong for a family film and Alley agreed to return.

Under which working title, shared with an oldie on its soundtrack, was Look Who's Talking filmed?

Daddy's Home was the name on 1988 production charts, and a song of that name plays in the finished film.

Which wild animals does Rocks face down in the snow to protect James in Look Who's Talking Now?

Wolves confront the pair as they search the snow for the family, and the stray's courage is what finally persuades Mollie to keep him.