The Blue Bird (1940)

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6.5	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Walter Lang

Starring (View all)

Shirley Temple
Mytyl

Spring Byington
Mummy Tyl

Nigel Bruce
Mr. Luxury

Gale Sondergaard
Tylette

Eddie Collins
Tylo

Sybil Jason
Angela Berlingot

Jessie Ralph
Fairy Berylune

Helen Ericson
Light

Written by

Maurice Maeterlinck

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Description: A poignant story of a selfish young German girl's search for happiness, Blue Bird is a classic Shirley Temple film with a storybook Hansel and Gretel feel. This restored and remastered 1940 film opens with a purposely grainy, black and white world that reinforces Mytyl's (Shirley Temple) ill-humored attitude toward life. Mytyl consistently complains about everything and fails to see that she and her family are really quite blessed until her father is summoned to war. A dramatic switch to Technicolor, now bright and clear thanks to restoration efforts, marks the fairy Berylone's (Jessie Ralph) nighttime appearance and the beginni ... (more)

Release date: 15 January 1940