The Blue Bird
1976 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit), who leave home to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. After spending some time wandering through a fantasy world and encountering The Night (Jane Fonda), The Cat (Cicely Tyson), Luxury (Ava Gardner), Father Time (Robert Morley), and The Oak (Harry Andrews), they meet The Queen of Light (Elizabeth Taylor) and discover that true happiness can be found right at home, with your family.
Direction George Cukor
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Todd Lookinland · Patsy Kensit · Jane Fonda · Ava Gardner · Cicely Tyson · Will Geer · Mona Washbourne · Robert Morley · Nadezhda Pavlova · Harry Andrews · George Cole · Richard Pearson · Georgiy Vitsin
Soundtrack Irwin Kostal
Screenplay Hugh Whitemore · Alfred Hayes · Alexei Kapler · Maurice Maeterlinck
Cinematography Freddie Young
Original title The Blue Bird
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223 votes (FilmAffinity)
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