Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with t…
Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the diamond, the children become aware of and conversant with the souls of a Dog and Cat, as well as of Fire, Water, Bread, Light, and other presumably inanimate things. The troupe thus sets off to find the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Writers: Maurice Maeterlinck (play), Charles Maigne (adapted for the screen by)
Stars: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008891/
Public domain.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Bird_(1918_film)
The Blue Bird is a 1918 silent fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur in the United States, under the auspices of producer Adolph Zukor. In 2004, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.[1]
Cast
Tula Belle as Mytyl
Robin Macdougall as Tyltyl
Edwin E. Reed as Daddy Tyl
Emma Lowry as Mummy Tyl
William J. Gross as Grandpa Gaffer Tyl
Florence Anderson as Granny Tyl
Edward Elkas as Widow Berlingot
Katherine Bianchi as Widow Berlingot's Daughter
Lillian Cook as Fairy Bérylune
Gertrude McCoy as Light
Lyn Donelson as Night
Charles Ascot as Dog
Tom Corless as Cat
Mary Kennedy as Water
Eleanor Masters as Milk
Charles Craig as Sugar
Sammy Blum as Bread
S.E. Potapovitch as Fire
Rose Rolanda
Production
The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey; many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.[2][3][4]
Reception
The New York Times gave the film a highly favorable review, calling it a "hit on screen", and stating that "seldom, if ever, has the atmosphere and spirit of a written work been more faithfully reproduced in motion pictures."[5] Of the actors, the critic wr..
