 This was the final film for Jane Darwell (qv) (who appears here as  the bird lady). She had retired in 1959 and was living at the Motion  Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, California, when she was  approached by Walt Disney Pictures to play the Bird Woman. She at  first refused, but Walt Disney (qv) was so set on having her in  the film that he personally visited her at the MPCH and eventually  persuaded her to take the part.