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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. George Cukor. Director. Alfred Hayes. Screenplay. Hugh Whitemore. Screenplay.
Purchase The Blue Bird on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Visually beautiful, full of imaginative sets, and splendidly photographed in rich Technicolor, this enchanting fantasy was Twentieth Century Fox's answer to "The Wizard of Oz". In a rare departure from her usual screen persona, Shirley plays a selfish, spoiled little girl named Mytyl, who doesn't appreciate her loving family. Only after a good fairy sends her and her brother (Johnny Russell) on a journey to find "the ...
Actor. Tula Belle. Actor. Robin Macdougall. Actor. Florence Anderson. Actor. Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. A fairy helps two children in their quest to find the elusive bluebird of happiness.
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Doylenf 21 March 2001. Although 'The Blue Bird' was not a resounding financial success at time of release, and has always been cited as being a poor imitation of 'The Wizard of Oz', it is an unjustly neglected film. Individual scenes are striking, as for example those depicting the unborn waiting in a kind of heavenly limbo (with billowing ...
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 ...
Apr 15, 2011 · Rio: Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Karen Disher, Jason Fricchione, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, Leslie Mann. When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams.
Feb 13, 2014 · “The Blue Bird” was a big-budget fantasy movie considered to be 20th Century Fox’s answer to the MGM smash hit “The Wizard of Oz,” for which Temple herself was briefly considered for the starring role. It was based on a play about two unhappy children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, who are visited by a magical fairy named Berylune and charged to ...
