The Blue Bird (1976 film)
- The Blue Bird (1976 film)
Infobox Film
name = The Blue Bird
director = George Cukor
writer = Maurice Maeterlinck (play)
starring = Elizabeth Taylor
Jane Fonda
Ava Gardner
Cicely Tyson
Robert Morley
studio = Lenfilm
company = 20th Century Fox
released = April 5, 1976
runtime = 95 min.
country = USSR, UK, USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0074225
"The Blue Bird" is a 1976 children's film (Cinema) directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay by Hugh Whitemore based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The film was a Soviet-American co-production, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, James Coco, Patsy Kensit, and Ava Gardner. There were certain on-set problems, partly because this was the first joint production between an American studio (20th Century Fox) and a Soviet one (Lenfilm). Language and cultural problems, along with on-set politics, delayed the filming process. Fact|date=March 2007 The film was awarded the Honorary Diploma at the 1976 Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults. [ [http://www.russiandvd.com/store/product.asp?sku=35106 The Blue Bird DVD] ]
According to such film books as The Medved Brothers' "The Hollywood Hall of Shame", which features an entire several-page section about the making of the movie, the film was widely panned by critics and was a major financial flop upon release. It has never been released in any home-video format in the US, though a Russian-language DVD is available from some on-line retailers, such as Amazon.com and DeepDiscount.com. Fact|date=March 2007 According to some sources, possession of the film rights reverted back to the Russians, hence its disappearance from US TV and its absence on video, Laserdisc, and DVD.Fact|date=March 2007
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