L'oiseau bleu

Original title: The Blue Bird

1940
G
1h 28m

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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.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.

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6.2/10

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Nominated for 2 Oscars
- 2 wins & 2 nominations total

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Trivia
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.

Quotes
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.

Crazy credits
Opening credits listed in hand turned pages of a book.

Connections
Featured in Biography: Shirley Temple: The Biggest Little Star (1996)

Soundtracks
O Come Little Children
(uncredited)
Traditional
Arranged by Edward B. Powell and Frank Tresselt

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Featured review

6/10

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 ****