The Blue Bird
AKA {The Bluebird}
(1918) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Cast: Tula Belle [Mytyl], Robin Macdougall [Tyltyl], Edwin E. Reed [Daddy Tyl], Emma Lowry [Mummy Tyl], William J. Gross [Gaffner Tyl], Florence Anderson [Granny Tyl], Edward Elkas [Berlingot], Katherine Bianchi [Berlingot’s daughter], Lillian Cook [the fairy Berylune], Gertrude McCoy [Light], Lyn Donelson [Night], Charles Ascot [Dog], Tom Coress [Cat], Mary Kennedy [Water], Eleanor Masters [Milk], Charles Craig [Sugar], Sam Blum [Bread], S.E. Potapovich [Fire], Rosa Rolanda
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [Artcraft Pictures]. / Scenario by Charles Maigne, from the play L’Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) by Maurice Maeterlinck. Art direction and set design by Ben Carré. Cinematography by John van den Broek. Edited by [?] Clarence Brown? Music score by James R. Bradford [?] and/or Hugo Riesenfeld? Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 25 March 1918 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP12216]. Released 31 March 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was shot at the Famous Players studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The film was reconstructed in 1990 by Paolo Cherchi Usai and Edward Stratmann.
Drama: Fantasy.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0394.
Survival Status: Prints exist in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive, and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Keywords: Birds: Bluebirds, Doves - Cathedrals - Cemetaries - Charity - Children - Christmas - Dance - Diamonds - Disease - Dreams - Fairies - Magic - Palaces - Widows
Listing updated: 23 February 2006.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.0394; Brownlow-Parade p. 242; Everson-American p. 68-69, 303, 370; Geduld-Birth p. 38 : ClasIm-278 p. 42; Image-34-1-2 p. 37 : Website-NFPF.
Home Video: DVD.
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