According to an interview on the DVD, the three-year-old Pauline Fossil was played by Emma Watson's twin half-sisters.
Emilia Fox playis the part of Sylvia Brown in this adaptation. Emilia's mother, Joanna David, played the part of Theo Dane in the 1975 BBC adaptation of the same story.
L'école de tous les talents (2007) was originally made as a British television movie, and aired on British Television in Christmas 2007, but got a theatrical release in the U.S.
Emma Watson's real-life half-sisters Lucy Watson and Nina Watson both played Baby ("Younger Pauline") Pauline and "Young Pauline."