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Alla ricerca della felicità

Titolo originale: The Blue Bird
  • 1940
  • G
  • 1h 28min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,2/10
2134
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Alla ricerca della felicità (1940)
AdventureFamilyFantasy

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaMytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.

  • Regia
    • Walter Lang
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Maurice Maeterlinck
    • Ernest Pascal
    • Walter Bullock
  • Star
    • Shirley Temple
    • Spring Byington
    • Nigel Bruce
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,2/10
    2134
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Walter Lang
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Maurice Maeterlinck
      • Ernest Pascal
      • Walter Bullock
    • Star
      • Shirley Temple
      • Spring Byington
      • Nigel Bruce
    • 51Recensioni degli utenti
    • 12Recensioni della critica
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    • Candidato a 2 Oscar
      • 2 vittorie e 2 candidature totali

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    Shirley Temple
    Shirley Temple
    • Mytyl
    Spring Byington
    Spring Byington
    • Mummy Tyl
    Nigel Bruce
    Nigel Bruce
    • Mr. Luxury
    Gale Sondergaard
    Gale Sondergaard
    • Tylette
    Eddie Collins
    Eddie Collins
    • Tylo
    Sybil Jason
    Sybil Jason
    • Angela Berlingot
    Jessie Ralph
    Jessie Ralph
    • Fairy Berylune
    Helen Ericson
    Helen Ericson
    • Light
    Johnny Russell
    Johnny Russell
    • Tyltyl
    Laura Hope Crews
    Laura Hope Crews
    • Mrs. Luxury
    Russell Hicks
    Russell Hicks
    • Daddy Tyl
    Cecilia Loftus
    Cecilia Loftus
    • Granny Tyl
    Al Shean
    Al Shean
    • Grandpa Tyl
    Leona Roberts
    Leona Roberts
    • Mrs. Berlingot
    Gene Reynolds
    Gene Reynolds
    • Studious Boy
    Stanley Andrews
    Stanley Andrews
    • Wilhelm
    Frank Dawson
    Frank Dawson
    • Caller of Roll
    Sterling Holloway
    Sterling Holloway
    • Wild Plum
    • Regia
      • Walter Lang
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Maurice Maeterlinck
      • Ernest Pascal
      • Walter Bullock
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    Kirpianuscus

    eccentric

    Obvious, an eccentric version of the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. First, for Mytyl proposed by Shirley Temple, seeming more a combination of Heidi and tomboy.

    Second, for very restrained team.

    Not the last, for effort of Gale Sondergaart. To offer a reasonable cat but who preserves as pure obscure its evil gestures motivation. And the rest in flames is not the most inspired idea.

    Two virtues save the film - the intense firestorm and the poetic - and faithfull palace of unborn children. And, sure, the dog, beautiful performed by Mr. Collins, like the grandparents or the location în time.

    But the feeling to be an eccentric try remains. Sure, one of films of Shirley Temple. But, I suppose, it is not just enough ehen you real love the original play.
    5dapplegrey13

    Lovely movie for children

    I haven't seen "The Bluebird" since I was about 10 years old or so (back in the late 1960's or early 1970's). It it still sticks with me and I think of it often. It was certainly a memorable film for a little girl. To me, it was a sweet picture of heaven and of home. It also reminded me very much of the close bond I had with my little brother. Every time I see a bluebird, I remember the movie. It made (and still makes) spotting a bluebird a wonderful experience. I hope it will come out on DVD soon so more people can see it and appreciate it. It's similar to the Wizard of Oz. It is a fantasy and a sentimental family film.
    6moonspinner55

    Ambitious perhaps, but one watches not knowing what tone was intended

    Shirley Temple's last lavishly-produced starring vehicle at 20th Century-Fox didn't come close to equaling the success (financial or otherwise) of 1939's "The Wizard Of Oz" from MGM (who had tried, unsuccessfully, to star Temple as Dorothy). This curious enterprise, based on the play, would seem to have a great deal in common with "Oz" (it even begins in black-and-white and turns to color), but the crucial elements of an identifiable plot are missing, and the young girl at the center of this story is consistently petulant. It was a fundamental error to make Shirley Temple unsympathetic; as the scowling, complaining daughter of a poor woodcutter, she wakes one night to an elderly fairy-woman knocking on her door and soon finds herself and her little brother on a search to find the Blue Bird of Happiness. The production is quite grand, but the saturated colors don't gleam and the set-designs are vast without having a sense of wonderment. As for Temple, she's a little bit stiff and self-conscious (odd for her), though her mature sarcasm in the prologue is very funny. Remade (disastrously, yet amusingly) as a musical in 1976. **1/2 from ****
    8lugonian

    Happiness Ahead

    THE BLUE BIRD (20th Century-Fox, 1940), directed by Walter Lang, adapted from the story by Maurice Masterlinck, is an interesting failure in Shirley Temple's movie career. A worthy follow-up to her previous success of THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939), a family oriented story also produced with lavish scale settings and glossy Technicolor, THE BLUE BIRD, a dream-like fantasy often labeled as the studio's answer to THE WIZARD OF OZ (MGM, 1939) starring Judy Garland, could have or should have become a box office success, but it didn't. Using the same opening credit method from Temple's HEIDI (1937) introducing the cast and staff through a series of flipped pages from an open book, THE BLUE BIRD, coming nearly three years later, did allow the now taller Temple to break away from her sweet wholesome image to a selfish, disagreeable adolescent. Unlike her most typical films where she often played either an orphan, or a daughter of a widowed parent, THE BLUE BIRD gives her a set of parents as well as a little brother.

    Black and White prologue: Set on Christmas Eve in a little German town sometime in the 19th Century, Mytyl Tyl (Shirley Temple), and her little brother, Tyltyl (Johnny Russell) at the Royal Forest are introduced trapping a rare little bird into a cage. On the way home, Mytyl is called over by Angela Berlinger (Sybil Jason), a sickly child resting by her bedroom window, if she would be interested in trading the bird with one of her possessions, but is refused. Aside from Angela's mother (Leona Roberts) who labels Myrtyl as a selfish child, so do her parents (Russell Hicks and Spring Byington), which explains why Mytyl is never very happy. Problems soon arise for the family when Mytyl's woodcutting father is called to war and to report Christmas day. As the children go to bed for the night, (shift to Technicolor) they each dream of themselves searching for the Blue Bird of Happiness, thus, meeting with numerous characters to guide them: Fairy Berylune (Jessie Ralph), Light (Helen Ericson), their dog and cat, Tylo and Tylette (Eddie Collins and Gale Sondergaard), magically changed to human form. While going through many aspects of human experience, Mytyl and Tyltyl visit the past, going to the land of memories in the cemetery where they are briefly reunited with their deceased grandparents (Al Shean and Cecilia Loftus); living the life of richness in the mansion of Mr. and Mrs. Luxury (Nigel Bruce and Laura Hope Crews); roaming through the forest where danger awaits, with uprooted trees and blazing fire; and moving into the future where the children visit the Palace of the Unborn where they make the acquaintance of children awaiting to be born before finding their destinies on Earth - but still no finding of the blue bird of happiness. Upon their awakening, further events await them. (While it would be asking too much to accept two children to be having the exact same dream while sleeping, but considering this to be a fantasy, it's possible acceptance to the viewer).

    Other members of the cast are Thurston Hall (Father Time); Sterling Holloway (Wild Plum Tree); and possibly every child actor in the movie business appearing briefly as Gene Reynolds; Ann E. Todd, Scotty Beckett, Billy Cook, Diane Fisher, among others. Johnny Russell, the doll-faced little boy has that rare distinction of having and sharing equal time with Temple, while the lesser known name of Helen Ericson as Light stands out as a sort of glowing guardian dressed in white angel with that Heavenly glow.

    First produced as a stage play, then adapted as a silent movie (Paramount, 1918), and much later retold again (20th Century-Fox, 1976) directed by George Cukor, regardless of its negative reputation, it's the 1940 edition that's become the best known of the three due to frequent television broadcasts starting in the late 1960s, usually around the Christmas season. Though there are those who claim this BLUE BIRD has laid an egg, overlooking some dull passages, it does contain some fine moments of honorable mention: lavish scale settings with crisp, glossy Technicolor; the beautiful yet haunting score to "Through the World so Far Away" sung by children on with giant ship with the golden sail on their way to be born, this being one of the longer dream segments of the dream; and one with an important message. Reportedly consisting of occasional song numbers, all except one, "Lay Dee O," sung and danced by Shirley Temple to her grandparents, remains in final cut. In fact, this is one of the few instances where the film comes to life, being a sheer reminder of formula Temple cheerfulness. Eddie Collins adds occasional humor as the humanly frightful dog while Gale Sondergaard adds tastes of cat-eye wickedness, but no threat to Margaret Hamilton's scene stealing Wicked Witch of the West from THE WIZARD OF OZ.

    Formerly available as part of the Shirley Temple Playhouse on video cassette in 1989, and later in DVD format, THE BLUE BIRD has turned up on numerous cable channels over the years, ranging from The Disney Channel (1980s), American Movie Classics (1996-2001), Fox Movie Channel, and finally Turner Classic Movies (TCM premiere: December 20, 2015). With the reportedly heavy editing of songs and scenes to abide to Temple's attention throughout, it's a wonder how THE BLUE BIRD might have turned out theatrically in completed form of more musical sequences as opposed to its 83 minute release of the blue bird search for happiness? Whether it would have made a difference between success and failure is anybody's guess. (***1/2)
    Doylenf

    Unusual Fantasy Deserves Honorable Mention Among Temple's Films

    Although 'The Blue Bird' was not a resounding financial success at time of release, and has always been cited as being a poor imitation of 'The Wizard of Oz', it is an unjustly neglected film. Individual scenes are striking, as for example those depicting the unborn waiting in a kind of heavenly limbo (with billowing clouds) before sailing off to their destination on earth. (You can spot Dickie Moore and Scotty Beckett among the unborn lads.) Shirley Temple and Johnny Russell are tremendously appealing as the young sister and brother searching for the elusive blue bird of happiness. A highlight is Shirley's excursion to the Land of the Past where she visits her dead grandparents and does a charming song-and-dance to a yodel song. The studio would have been wise to incorporate a few more such songs. With added numbers, this might have been a much more successful film. As it is, her role is not strong enough, as written, and yet we can appreciate her by the film's end. She is particularly affecting in the scenes with the unborn children, showing genuine charm and affection and looking radiant in technicolor. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Special Effects and Color Cinematography), nominations which were well deserved. The spectacular forest fire is very effective, as are the special effects in general. In the supporting roles, Gale Sondergaard (as Tylette, the cat)has fun with a typical Sondergaard role, mistress of evil. Nigel Bruce and Spring Byington lend excellent support. Summing up, while the whole is not as great as its parts, this is a lavishly photographed film definitely worth viewing. Not a masterpiece, by any means, but there is much to appreciate and it should not be neglected.

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      The blue bird of the title was paid $50 a day, and flew away from a Los Angeles aviary soon after the movie was finished.
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      Granny Tyl: Somebody must be thinking of us. I feel quite strong. I think we're going to have visitors. They seem to be coming near.

      Grandpa Tyl: Maybe now I can finish my carving. I've been at this one for nearly a whole year.

      Granny Tyl: That's because we're so seldom awake.

      Mytyl, Tyltyl: Granny! Grandpa!

      Granny Tyl: It's the children! Give us a hug, dears, a big one this time.

      Grandpa Tyl: It's been months and months since you last remembered us.

      Granny Tyl: The last time was Easter morning. The church bells were ringing.

      Mytyl: Easter? Oh, we didn't go out that day. We both had very bad colds.

      Granny Tyl: But you thought of us.

      Mytyl: Yes, we missed you.

      Granny Tyl: Every time you think of us, we wake up and see you again.

      Mytyl: But we thought you were dead.

      Granny Tyl: No, dear. Only when we're forgotten.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      Opening credits listed in hand turned pages of a book.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Biography: Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star (1996)
    • Colonne sonore
      O Come Little Children
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      Traditional

      Arranged by Edward B. Powell and Frank Tresselt

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    • Data di uscita
      • 15 gennaio 1940 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, Stati Uniti
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      • Twentieth Century Fox
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