The Blue Bird (1940)

5.8/10 88 min Family Fantasy Adventure Comedy

Overview

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.

Cast

Shirley Temple

Mytyl

Spring Byington

Mummy Tyl

Nigel Bruce

Mr. Luxury

Gale Sondergaard

Tylette (the cat)

Eddie Collins

Tylo (the dog)

Sybil Jason

Angela Berlingot

Jessie Ralph

Fairy Berylune

Helen Ericson

Light

Johnny Russell

Tyltyl

Laura Hope Crews

Mrs. Luxury

Russell Hicks

Daddy Tyl

Cecilia Loftus

Granny Tyl

Al Shean

Grandpa Tyl

Leona Roberts

Mrs. Berlingot

Gene Reynolds

Studious Boy

Stanley Andrews

Wilhelm

Sterling Holloway

Wild Plum

Thurston Hall

Father Time

Edwin Maxwell

Oak

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