Home | Back to Index

The Blue Bird (1940) Front Cover Actor Shirley Temple Mytyl Spring Byington Mummy Tyl Nigel Bruce Mr. Luxury Gale Sondergaard Tylette Eddie Collins Tylo Sybil Jason Angela Berlingot Movie Details Genre Family; Fantasy; Kids Director Walter Lang Producer Darryl F. Zanuck Writer Maurice Maeterlinck; Ernest Pascal; Walter Bullock Photography Arthur C. Miller Musician Alfred Newman Type Theater Language English MPAA Rating G Running Time 88 mins Country U.S. Color Color IMDb Rating 5.9 Plot 1- A Germanic, gingerbread story, a little like Hansel and Gretel, which visits the future and the past and looks at the range of human nature. Though beautifully filmed it was Shirley Temple's first box office flop. 2 - 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. Personal Details 10 Point Ranking 6 Owner Bruce Current Value $13.49 Leonard Maltin xx USCCB Rating A-I Links Amazon US IMDB USCCB Product Details Format VHS Region Region 1 Subtitles Spanish Notes Best for the younger members of the family.