On a Snow-Kissed Day, A Question

Why do we feed the birds?
Tell me, friend, and maybe then
I’ll know
what I need to know.

The Sherman brothers – Richard and Robert – wrote “Feed the Birds” for the 1964 film Mary Poppins. According to lore, it was Walt Disney’s favorite song from his movies (though Fantasia was his favorite film).

“Every so often Walt would call us up to his office on a Friday afternoon,” Richard recalled. “We knew what he wanted. When we got there, he would say, ‘I just wanted to know what you boys were up to these days.’ Then he would turn around in his chair and stare out the window, like the first time we played it for him, and he would say, ‘Play it.’ And we would…”

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Walt Disney begged one of his favorite character actresses, Jane Darwell, to play the role of the bird woman. Living in a nursing home, feeble, long since retired, she declined. He persisted. And finally, she agreed. It was her last appearance on film.

 

 

 

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