Bluebeard (disambiguation)

Bluebeard is the title character in a 1697 fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Bluebeard can also refer to:

Film

• Barbe Bleue (1902 film) (Blue Beard), a short film by Georges Méliès
• Bluebeard (1944 film), a film by the cult director Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine
• Blaubart, released in the United States as Bluebeard, a 1951 German-French film directed by Christian-Jaque, starring Hans Albers
• Landru, released in the United States as Bluebeard, a 1963 French film directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner
• Bluebeard (1972 film), a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton
• Bluebeard (2009 film), a film directed by Catherine Breillat, starring Dominique Thomas

Music

• Mavi Sakal, which means Bluebeard in Turkish, a Turkish rock band formed in 1980
• Bluebeard (band), a Japanese band
• Bluebeard (album), the first full-length album by the band Bluebeard
• "Bluebeard" (song), a song by Cocteau Twins from their 1993 album Four-Calendar Café
• "Bluebeard", a song from the 1996 Schizophonic!

Opera

• Barbe-bleue (Blue-beard), an 1866 operetta by French composer Jacques Offenbach
• Bluebeard, an operetta popular in the United States in 1872, mainly known by the song "If I Ever Cease to Love" which became the anthem of the Rex Parade
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, an 1907 opera by Paul Dukas
• Bluebeard's Castle, an 1911 opera by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók
• Ritter Blaubart, a 1920 opera by Austrian composer Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

Other uses

• the genus Caryopteris of the mint family
• Bluebeard, a 1970 play by New York playwright Charles Ludlam
• Bluebeard (novel), a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut
• nickname of medieval serial killer Gilles de Rais

See also

• Blackbeard (disambiguation)
• Redbeard (disambiguation)