The Blue Bird (1976)

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by... See full summary »

Director:

George Cukor

Writers:

Alfred Hayes, Aleksei Kapler,

Stars:

Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Elizabeth Taylor	...	Queen of Light / Mother / Witch / Maternal Love
Jane Fonda	...	The Night
Ava Gardner	...	Luxury
Cicely Tyson	...	Tylette
Robert Morley	...	Father Time
Harry Andrews	...	The Oak
Todd Lookinland	...	Tyltyl
Patsy Kensit	...	Mytyl
Will Geer	...	Grandfather
Mona Washbourne	...	Grandmother
George Cole	...	Tylo
Richard Pearson	...	The Bread
Nadezhda Pavlova	...	The Blue Bird
Georgiy Vitsin	...	The Sugar
Margarita Terekhova	...	The Milk

Storyline

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

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Plot Keywords:

bread | bird | children | fire | journey | 

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Taglines:

A cavalcade of magic. A carnival of fun. The Blue Bird is magic for everyone.

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

G

Details

Country:

USA Soviet Union

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 April 1976 (USA)

Also Known As:

O Pássaro Azul

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$887,000 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lenfilm Studio, Tower International, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

According to actress Cicely Tyson, director George Cukor accused her of jinxing the film by using voodoo magic. Relations between Tyson and Cukor eventually deteriorated to the point where, when Tyson would arrive on set in the morning, she would ask - referring to Cukor - "Is he dead yet?"

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Connections

Version of The Blue Bird (1918)

User Reviews

A marvelous traveling through the Past to the Future searching the Happiness

Excellent, brilliant film! If you know what the happiness is, you'll search for it in that film. You'll be a guest in your own past, in your memory.. and you'll enter the amazing world of the future, which is always young. You'll enter the Castle of Darkness and the Palace of All the Enjoys of the World. You will have a lot of difficult adventures. You will have some true friends and some very envious enemies.. The Blue Bird - the symbol of happiness - is always flying somewhere close, but you can't get it in your hands. You'll probably try to answer to one question: "where your happiness is, if you have enjoyed it not once."