The Blue Bird (1976)
A cavalcade of magic. A carnival of fun. The Blue Bird is magic for everyone.
99 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
- April 5, 1976
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $12,000,000
- Box office
- $3,500,000
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Cast
- Patsy Kensit as Mytyl
- Todd Lookinland as Tyltyl
- Elizabeth Taylor as Mother
- Elizabeth Taylor as Witch
- Elizabeth Taylor as Light
- Jane Fonda as The Night
- Cicely Tyson as Tylette
- Ava Gardner as Luxury
- Margarita Terekhova as Milk
- Georgiy Vitsin as Sugar
- Oleg Popov as Clown
- Nadezhda Pavlova as Blue Bird
Crew
- George Cukor · Director
- Tony Harrison · Writer
- Alfred Hayes · Writer
- Aleksei Kapler · Writer
- Maurice Maeterlinck · Writer
- Paul Maslansky · Producer
- Irwin Kostal · Composer
- Jonas Gricius · Cinematographer
- Freddie Young · Cinematographer
- Stanford C. Allen · Editor
- Tatyana Shapiro · Editor
- Ernest Walter · Editor
- Maude Spector · Casting director
- Valery Yurkevich · Production designer