The Blue Bird (1976 film)
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The Blue Bird is a 1976 American-Soviet children's fantasy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore, Alfred Hayes, and Aleksei Kapler is based on the 1908 play L'Oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck. It was the fifth screen adaptation of the play, following two silent films, the studio's 1940 version starring Shirley Temple, and a 1970 animated feature. It was famous as one of the few cinematic co-productions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. However, unlike prior adaptations, the film received little-to-no critical praise and was a flop at the box office.
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Directed by | George Cukor |
Written by | Hugh Whitemore Alfred Hayes Aleksei Kapler Lyrics by Tony Harrison Based on a play by Maurice Maeterlinck |
Produced by | Paul Maslansky |
Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Jane Fonda Cicely Tyson Will Geer Todd Lookinland Nadezhda Pavlova Ava Gardner |
Cinematography | Jonas Gricius Freddie Young |
Edited by | Stanford C. Allen Tatyana Shapiro |
Music by | Irwin Kostal Andrey Petrov |
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Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Countries | United States Soviet Union |
Languages | English Russian |
Budget | $12 million |
Box office | $3.5 million (US/ Canada)[1] |
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