[2] Described by Hollywood columnist Dick Kleiner as "look[ing] like an innocent Hayley Mills", Bird appeared in just three films: Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), and a small role as girlfriend to Paul Simon's character in the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977).

[5] While researching for Two-Lane Blacktop, screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer met her and recommended her to Hellman while he was looking for actresses for the same movie.

[11] In 1979, Bird died by suicide by taking an overdose of Valium[12] in the New York apartment she shared with Garfunkel, who was deeply affected by her death.

Garfunkel's 1981 album Scissors Cut states in its credits that it was "dedicated to you, Bird", and carried a partial photograph of her on its back cover.

Bird's relationship with Garfunkel was referred to in the liner notes of the latter's 1988 album Lefty and his collection of prose poems Still Water.

In the foreword, he writes, "This book by no means intends to convey any truth beyond one possible solution to the puzzles of her life and work.