Bird lady whistles for Disney

Here's a really obscure piece of Disney trivia I thought I'd post. Did you know that a lady named Marion Darlington Pratt was responsible for supplying bird calls in films and cartoons and even the Disney parks?

She whistled her way into the 1932 Silly Symphony "Flowers and Trees," "Bambi," and a bird that Snow White holds in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

In the original "Carousel of Progress," when the robins are back, "a sure sign of spring," those robins are Marion, and she whistled, squawked and screeched in harmony in "Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room."

There she blows! Here's a photo of Marion doing her thing at an Antelope Hills benefit:


 

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