The Blue Bird Summary
Director: George Cukor
Genres: Fantasy, Children's/Family
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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. As the box-office failure of the first two versions of this story proves, putting this sort of children's fantasy on film is tricky business, and despite a top-notch cast of American and Soviet talent and the directorial expertise of veteran filmmaker George_Cukor, The Blue Bird had a notoriously difficult production, with the American and Russian crews not always understanding each other's working methods, the Soviet camera crew not knowing how to light African-American actress Cicely_Tyson, and Jane_Fonda often trying to engage the Russian crew members in political discussions. Mark Deming, Rovi
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