SOME TRIVIA:
The film is biographically incorrect. Mrs Hargreaves was accompanied by her sister and one of her sons on the trip to the USA. Lucy, the female companion, was completely made up.
Despite the American setting, the entire film was made in the UK. All the American actors were domiciled in Britain at that time and their faces can be seen in virtually every British film and TV production made during that period which needed a 'real' American.
Ken Campbell, playing the Sound Effects Man in the radio play which precedes Alice Hargreave's commercials, says he played the Caterpillar in a radio version of "Alice In Wonderland". Actually he plays the March Hare in this film - or at least his voice does. He was also to appear in the 1999 Tina Majorino film as 'Mr Duck'.
Frank Middlemass can be heard as the voice of the Caterpillar in 'Dreamchild' and he, too, appeared in the Majorino film, as Mr Dodo.
Alan Bennett was the voice of the Mock Turtle. He had an earlier 'Alice' connection as he was in the 1967 Jonathan Miller BBC TV play.
This was to be Coral Browne's last film, she died four years after it's completion. Alice Hargreaves herself had died two years after the real-life trip to New York.
Jane Asher, Alice's 'Dreamchild' mother, had, as a very young girl, played Alice herself in a sound-only version of "Alice In Wonderland". Click here for more background information on this item.
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Thanks to Joe Strike of NYC for the DVD cover scan.
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here are two "picnic" sequences in the film. The first recreates the river trip to Godstow where Dodgson starts to tell the story which was to become "Alice In 
Wonderland", and the second, some time later, when Alice has grown tired and embarrassed about it. It's here that we see her humiliate him and witness the beginning of her rejection.
