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"The Blue Bird" (French: L’oiseau bleu) is a French literary fairy tale by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697. [1] An English translation was included in The Green Fairy Book , 1892, collected by Andrew Lang .
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The Blue Bird is a 1940 American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang. The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck . Intended as 20th Century Fox 's answer to MGM 's The Wizard of Oz , which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a ...
The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to The Blue Bird titled The Betrothal; or, The Blue Bird Chooses. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series
The Blue Bird is a 1976 American-Soviet children's fantasy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore , Alfred Hayes , and Aleksei Kapler is based on the 1908 play L'Oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck .
The Blue Bird essay by Kaveh Askar on the National Film Registry site; The Blue Bird essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2020 ISBN 0826429777, pages 61–62; The Blue Bird at IMDb; The Blue Bird at the TCM Movie Database
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Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Peter in a bird's nest, floating under the bridge. Peter is a seven-day-old infant who, "like all infants", used to be part bird. Peter has complete faith in his flying abilities, so, upon hearing a discussion of his adult life, he is able to escape out of the window of his London home and return to Kensington Gardens.