The Blue Bird (1976)
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Director:
George Cukor
Writers:
Hugh Whitemore, Alfred Hayes.
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Patsy Kensit as Mytyl |
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Todd Lookinland as Tyltyl |
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Elizabeth Taylor as Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love |
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Jane Fonda as The Night |
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Cicely Tyson as Tylette |
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Ava Gardner as Luxury |
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Margarita Terekhova as Milk |
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Georgiy Vitsin as Sugar |
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Oleg Popov as Clown |
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Nadezhda Pavlova as Blue Bird |
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Will Geer as Grandfather |
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Mona Washbourne as Grandmother |
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Robert Morley as Father Time |
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Harry Andrews as Oak |
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George Cole as Tylo |
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Richard Pearson as Bread |
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Valentina Ganibalova as Water |
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Yevgeni Shcherbakov as Fire |
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Leonid Nevedomsky as Father |
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Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova as Pleasure of eating |
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Sergei Filippov as Pleasure of not-understanding |
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Vladimir Kazarinov as Pleasure of doing nothing |
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Grigoriy Shpigel as Pleasure of being rich |
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Igor Dmitriev as Pleasure to being beautiful |
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Lyudmila Ksenofontova as Pleasure of knowing nothing |
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Yury Shepelev as Pleasure to drink |
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Evgeniya Karetnikova as |
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Grant Bardsley as children of the future |
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Monique Potter as children of the future |
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Anne Blackman as children of the future |
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Russell Lewis as children of the Future |
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Steven Warner as children of the future |
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James Coco as Tylo the dog |
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Pheona McLellan as sick girl |
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Oskar Lind as |
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Vladimir Lyudevig as |
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Sergei Remmekh as |
| Directing | George Cukor | Director |
| Writing | Hugh Whitemore | Screenplay |
| Production | Harry N. Blum | Producer |
| Production | Maude Spector | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Azizyan | Costume Design |
| Writing | Alfred Hayes | Screenplay |
| Production | Robert H. Greenberg | Producer |
| Sound | Irwin Kostal | Music |
| Production | Paul Maslansky | Producer |
| Camera | Freddie Young | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Stanford C. Allen | Editor |
| Sound | Kenneth Wannberg | Music Editor |
| Crew | Robert Rietti | Dialect Coach |
| Editing | Tatyana Shapiro | Editor |
| Writing | Maurice Maeterlinck | Theatre Play |
| Camera | Jonas Gricius | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Aleksei Kapler | Writer |
| Art | Valeri Yurkevich | Production Design |
| Art | Brian Wildsmith | Conceptual Illustrator |
| Art | Brian Wildsmith | Graphic Designer |
| Writing | Tony Harrison | Lyricist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Arthur Bruckel | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Vasili Goryunov | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sydney Guilaroff | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Giancarlo Novelli | Hairstylist |
| Production | Edward Lewis | Executive Producer |
| Production | Paul B. Radin | Producer |
| Production | Lee Savin | Producer |