The Blue Bird (1976 film)
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| Directed by | George Cukor |
| Written by | Maurice Maeterlinck (play) |
| Starring | Elizabeth Taylor Jane Fonda Ava Gardner Cicely Tyson Robert Morley |
| Release date(s) | April 5, 1976 |
| Running time | 95 min. |
| Language | Silent |
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The Blue Bird is a 1976 film directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay by Hugh Whitemore based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. It is the most notorious film version of the play. The film was a Soviet-American coproduction, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, James Coco, Patsy Kensit, and Ava Gardner. There were endless on-set problems, partly due to the fact that this was the first joint production between an American studio (Fox, again) and a Soviet one (Lenfilm). Language and cultural problems, along with on-set politics, delayed the filming process.
The film was widely panned by critics and was a major financial flop upon release. It has never been released in any home-video format in the US, though a Russian-language DVD is available from some on-line retailers. According to some sources, possession of the film rights reverted back to the Russians, hence its disappearance from US TV and its absence on video, Laserdisc, and DVD.
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