The Blue Bird (1940)
1001 Wonders in Technicolor
88 min
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
- Release date
- January 15, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $2,000,000
Cast
- Shirley Temple as Mytyl
- Spring Byington as Mummy Tyl
- Nigel Bruce as Mr. Luxury
- Gale Sondergaard as Tylette
- Eddie Collins as Tylo
- Sybil Jason as Angela Berlingot
- Jessie Ralph as Fairy Berylune
- Helen Ericson as Light
- Johnny Russell as Tyltyl
- Laura Hope Crews as Mrs. Luxury
Crew
- Walter Lang · Director
- Maurice Maeterlinck · Writer
- Ernest Pascal · Writer
- Walter Bullock · Writer
- Darryl F. Zanuck · Producer
- Alfred Newman · Composer
- Arthur C. Miller · Cinematographer
- Robert Bischoff · Editor