FatherLENFILM
20th CENTURY-FOX
A co-production of
SOVINFILM and
EDWARD LEWIS PRODUCTIONS
Mother, Witch, Light, Motherly Love -
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Night - JANE FONDA
Cat - CICELY TYSON
Luxury - AVA GARDNER
Milk - MARGARITA TEREKHOVA
Sugar - GEORGY VITSIN
Clown - OLEG POPOV
Blue Bird - NADEZHDA PAVLOVA
In a film by
GEORGE CUKOR
THE BLUE BIRD
based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play
Also starring:
Tyltyl - TODD LOOKINLAND
Mytyl - PATSY KENSIT
Screenplay by Alexei KAPLER
Hugh WHITEMORE, Alfred HAYES
Cinematography by
Freddie YOUNG, Ionas GRITSUS
Production design and graphics by
Brian WILDSMITH
Art director - Valery YURKEVICH
Costumes by
Marina AZIZYAN and Edith HEAD
Songs and ballet music by
Andrei PETROV
Music composed and conducted by
Irwin KOSTAL
Lyrics by Tony HARRISON
Producer - Paul MASLANSKY
Choreography by
Igor BELSKY, Leonid JACOBSON
Director - George CUKOR
I'm scared!
Don't lag behind!
Come on, Tylo!
Mother! We're back!
Oh, my goodness...
Where have you been?
Go wash yourself!
Look at you, you're soaking wet!
You're covered in mud!
I see you were not in a hurry to get
home.
But we ran all the way home!
Even across the bridge.
Oh, God!
- Go to bed now!
- I'm hungry!
You're having no supper tonight!
Go on, go to bed!
Hurry up!
Where are the children?
I sent them to bed.
To bed? So early?
- They misbehaved today.
- Misbehaved?
Yes. They went to the bridge.
And I have told them time and time
again never to cross that thing!
Little rascals!
They have gotten out of hand.
Children are all the same.
They keep forgetting.
Will you stop defending them!
Mytyl?
Tyltyl?
Are you asleep?
Are you?
How can I be asleep
when I'm talking to you?
You mustn't get up!
Mommy will be angry again.
What's all that?
I'm going down to look.
They're going to punish us, Tyltyl.
They won't if they don't hear us.
- Why are they making such a noise?
- They're musicians.
- Are they angry?
- No, it's just their work.
What's all that on the tables?
Cakes, and fruit and tarts...
- Are they going to eat them?
- What else would they do with them?
Why don't they eat them at once?
They're not hungry.
Not hungry? Strange people.
They eat whenever they want to.
- Every day?
- So I'm told.
Will they eat them all?
Perhaps they'll give some to us?
They don't know us.
Look, Tyltyl, they're eating them.
The girls have got two cakes each.
- The boys have got three!
- I've got twelve.
- I've got two times twelve.
- Give me some.
What's the matter?
We better go home.
We don't belong here.
It's cold.
Tyltyl, I'm cold.
So am I.
They're asleep. Come on.
Where is the bird
that is blue?
I must have it.
Give me the bird that is blue!
- Tyltyl has a bird.
- Yes, but I can't give it away.
- What? Why not?
- Because it's mine.
Well, that's a good reason, I suppose.
Where is this bird?
In the cage.
No, no, no...
It's not blue enough.
You must find me the one I want.
- We don't know where it is.
- No more do I!
That's why you must find it for me.
I must have the bluebird.
It's for a little girl
who's very ill.
What's the matter with her?
Well, we're not quite sure.
She wants to be happy.
Don't lose time, go at once!
- At once?
- Yes, why not?
We're supposed to be in bed.
In bed? Then what were you
doing outside?
Playing at eating cakes.
Where are these cakes?
Tell me, where are you hiding them?
I want cakes very much.
Where are they?
In the rich children's house.
And they invited you
to try their cakes?
No, we were just looking.
It was so beautiful over there...
No more beautiful over there than
here.
It's darker here and smaller.
And there aren't any cakes.
Of course, you just can't see!
I can even see the time
on the church clock from here.
But I tell you, you can't see!
Can you see me?
How do I look?
Well, answer me, young man.
Am I old or young?
Am I ugly or pretty?
Perhaps you can see so well that you
think I have a hump on my