The Blue Bird

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1918-03-31

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

75 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (446 Reviews)

Director:

Maurice Tourneur

Genres:

Fantasy

Cast:

Tula Belle Robin Macdougall Edwin E. Reed Emma Lowry

Writer:

Maurice Maeterlinck (play)

Charles Maigne

Fullplot:

Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with the souls of a Dog and Cat, as well as of Fire, Water, Bread, Light, and other presumably inanimate things. The troupe thus sets off to find the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.

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