The Blue Bird (1976 film)

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The Blue Bird
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	English
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The Blue Bird is a 1976 children's film directed by George Cukor, with a screenplay by Hugh Whitemore based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The film was a Soviet-American coproduction, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Cicely Tyson, James Coco, Patsy Kensit, and Ava Gardner. There were certain on-set problems, partly due to the fact that this was the first joint production between an American studio (20th Century Fox) and a Soviet one (Lenfilm). Language and cultural problems, along with on-set politics, delayed the filming process.^{[citation needed]} The film was awarded the Honorary Diploma at the 1976 Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults.^[1]

The film was widely panned by critics and was a major financial flop upon release.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ The Blue Bird DVD

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