Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
Willow pattern to evoke a 19th-century atmosphere in several American western movies (as well as western television shows, and even the comedy, "The Munsters"), Blue Willow china is also featured in "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Murder She Wrote," suggesting a contemporary time or setting when life was simpler. It was also seen in the movie "Sleepy Hollow". "Blue Willow" by Doris Gates (1940) is an award-winning children's novel, a realist fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression years that has been called, ""The Grapes of Wrath" for children". The titular blue willow plate, a gift from her great-grandmother,