Bluebeard (disambiguation)

Bluebeard the title character in a 1697 fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Bluebeard can also refer to:

Botany

* The genus "Caryopteris" of the vervain family.

Film

*"Barbe Bleu" ("Blue Beard"), a 1901 short film by the French magician/filmmaker Georges Méliès
*"Miss Bluebeard", a 1925 romantic comedy directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Bebe Daniels
*"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife", a 1938 American film starring Gary Cooper
*"Bluebeard" (1944 film), a film by the cult director Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine
*"Blaubart", released in the United States as "Bluebeard", a 1951 German-French film directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Hans Albers
*"Landru", released in the United States as "Bluebeard", a 1963 French film directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner
*"Bluebeard" (1972 film), a film directed on European locations by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton
* Very Blue Beard, a 1979 Soviet animated film

Literature

*"Bluebeard" (novel), a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut

Music

*Bluebeard (band), a Japanese band
*"Bluebeard" (album), the first full-length album by the band Bluebeard
*"Bluebeard", a song by Cocteau Twins from their 1993 album "Four-Calendar Café"
*"Bluebeard", a song by Combustible Edison from their 1996 album "Schizophonic!"

Opera

*"Raoul Barbe-Bleue" ("Raoul Blue-Beard"), a 1789 opera by French composer André Grétry
*"Barbe-bleue" ("Blue-beard"), an 1866 operetta by French composer Jacques Offenbach
*"Chateau de la Barbe Bleue" ("The Castle of the Blue Beard"), an 1851 operetta by Dutch-Belgian composer Armand Limnander
*"Bluebeard" an operetta popular in the United States in 1872, mainly known by the song "If I Ever Cease to Love" which became the anthem of the Rex Parade
*"Ariane et Barbe-Bleue" ("Ariane and Blue-Beard"), a 1907 opera, the only one written by French composer Paul Dukas
*"A kékszakállú herceg vára" (" [Duke] Bluebeard's Castle"), a 1918 one-act opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók
*"Ritter Blaubart" ("Sir Bluebeard [Bluebeard the Knight] "), a 1920 opera by Austrian composer Emil Rezniček
*"L'Ottava moglie di Barbablù" ("The Eighth Wife of Bluebeard"), a 1940 opera by Italian composer Vito Frazzi

Theatre

*"Ritter Blaubart" ("Sir Bluebeard [Bluebeard the Knight] "), a 1796 comic melodrama by German dramatist Johann Ludwig Tieck
*"La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleu" ("Bluebeard's Eighth Wife"), a 1921 comedic play by French-Polish dramatist Alfred Savoir
*"Bluebeard", a 1970 play by New York playwright Charles Ludlam

Other

*The pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, is often mistakenly referred to as Bluebeard [cite http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/bluebeard/history.html] .

*Bart Simpson used it as an improvised answer to a question in The Simpsons episode "Bart Gets an F".