The Blue Bird, Синяя Птица, 1976 USA-USSR, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Nadya Pavlova

The Blue Bird is a 1976 American-Soviet children’s fantasy film directed by George Cukor, based on the 1908 play L’Oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck. It was famous as one of the few cinematic co-productions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. However, the film received little-to-no critical praise and was a flop at the box office. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor as Queen of Light/Mother/Witch/Maternal Love Jane Fonda as Night Ava Gardner as Luxury Cicely Tyson as Tylette, the Cat Robert Morley as Father Time Leonid Nevedomsky as Father Harry Andrews as The Oak Todd Lookinland as Tyltyl Patsy Kensit as Mytyl Will Geer as Grandfather Mona Washbourne as Grandmother George Cole as Tylo, the Dog Richard Pearson as Bread Georgiy Vitsin as Sugar Margarita Terekhova as Milk Valentina Ganibalova as Water Eugene Shcherbakov as Fire Nadezhda Pavlova as The Blue Bird Grant Bardsley as Little Blue Brother Oleg Popov as Clow