Bluebeard (disambiguation)

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

Bluebeard may also refer to:

Film

• Bluebeard (1944 film), a film by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine
• Bluebeard (1951 film), a film by Christian-Jaque
• Bluebeard (1972 film), a film by Edward Dmytryk, starring Richard Burton
• Bluebeard (2009 film), a film by Catherine Breillat, starring Dominique Thomas
• Landru (film) or Bluebeard, a 1963 French film by Claude Chabrol, starring Charles Denner

Literature

• Bluebeard (Frisch novel), a 1982 novel by Max Frisch
• Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel), a 1987 novel Kurt Vonnegut
• Bluebeard, a 1970 play by Charles Ludlam
• In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture, 1971 book by essayist and literary critic George Steiner
• Bluebeard (History), a 2014 book by Valerie Ogden

Music

• "Bluebeard" (song), a 1993 song by Cocteau Twins from Four-Calendar Café
• "Bluebeard", a 1996 song by Combustible Edison from Schizophonic!
• "Blue Beard" a 2010 song by Seattle-based rock band Band of Horses

Other uses

• Henri Désiré Landru or Bluebeard (1869-1922), French serial killer
• Caryopteris or bluebeard, a genus of the mint family
• Bluebeard, an operetta known for the song "If I Ever Cease to Love", which became the anthem of the Rex Parade

See also

• Barbe Bleue (1902 film) (Blue Beard), a short film by Georges Méliès
• Barbe-bleue (Blue-beard), an 1866 operetta by Jacques Offenbach
• Mavi Sakal ("Bluebeard" in Turkish), a Turkish rock band formed in 1980
• Bluebeard's Castle, an 1911 opera by Béla Bartók
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, an 1907 opera by Paul Dukas
• Ritter Blaubart, a 1920 opera by Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek
• Conomor (fl. c. 540+), also known as Conomerus or Conomor the Cursed
• Gilles de Rais (1404–1440), Baron de Rais, medieval serial killer
• Bye, Bye Bluebeard, a 1949 Warner Brothers cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series.
• Blackbeard (disambiguation)
• Redbeard (disambiguation)