Trivia for the book:
- Accidental Downer Ending: The book ends before we find out if Margolo is ever found. E.B. White was planning on writing a sequel, but he never did.
- Died During Production: Fear of this led E. B. White to abruptly stop work on Stuart Little so that the book ends with zero resolution to its main storyline. White lived forty more years and wrote two further children's novels, but Stuart Little still feels like he died before finishing it.
Trivia for the films:
The first movie actually led to
the re-discovery of a lost painting!
When the movie was in production, a set designer purchased a painting at an antiques shop in Pasadena, then after filming wrapped it hung on her wall. In 2009, Gergely Barki, a researcher at the
Hungarian National Gallery, noticed the painting in the background while watching the film with his daughter, and immediately set out to contact
Sony Pictures and the set designer— the painting, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" by Róbert Berény, had been lost in the 1920s, and he only had a blurry black-and-white photograph to go off of! It
was in fact the real deal, and it was sold by the set designer to a private collector who brought it back to Hungary; it ended up selling for 229,500 euros.
- Acting for Two: Jim Doughan both voices Lucky the Siamese cat and portrays Detective Sherman in the original film. note He also makes a cameo as the soccer coach in the second film.
- Celebrity Voice Actor:
- The Mexican dub has Stuart Little voiced by Adal Ramones, one of the most famous Mexican comedians of the late nineties and early 2000s.
- The Brazilian dub of the first two movies has Rodrigo Santoro as the voice of Stuart Little, and the first movie's dub has Miguel Falabella as the voice of Snowbell.
- Creator's Oddball: When you think of the kind of films M. Night Shyamalan makes, Stuart Little is probably not going to be one you'd guess he had a hand in.
- Dawson Casting: Stuart is frequently called George's little brother, referring to him being both smaller and younger than him, yet he's voiced by the adult Michael J. Fox while an actual child, Jonathan Lipnicki, plays George.
- Fake American: The British Hugh Laurie puts on a New York accent to portray Frederick Little.
- He Also Did: Stuart Little 2 screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin also has Ghost (1990), Deadly Friend and Jacob's Ladder to his credit!
- Write What You Know: In the 2017 British television show Celebs Go Dating, Jonathan Lipnicki revealed on an intimate date that the character Snowbell was based on a cat that director Rob Minkoff had growing up. He also revealed he took the cat home after shooting finished as he had formed such a bond with it.
Trivia for the animated series:
- Recycled: The Series: Received an animated adaptation on HBO Family in 2003; it ran for 13 episodes, and the 3rd movie served as a followup to the show.
- Role Reprise: Only Hugh Laurie, oddly enough, came back to voice his character; everyone else was replaced.
