The Blue Bird

Cast & Crew

Cast & Crew

Directed by

George Cukor
(directed by)

Writing Credits

Tony Harrison
(lyricist)
Alfred Hayes
(screenplay)
Aleksei Kapler
Maurice Maeterlinck
(story)
Hugh Whitemore
(screenplay)

Cast

Patsy Kensit
Mytyl
Todd Lookinland
Tyltyl
Elizabeth Taylor
Mother / Witch / Light / Maternal Love
Jane Fonda
The Night
Cicely Tyson
Tylette
Ava Gardner
Luxury
Margarita Terekhova
Milk
Georgiy Vitsin
Sugar
Oleg Popov
Clown
Nadezhda Pavlova
Blue Bird
Will Geer
Grandfather
Mona Washbourne
Grandmother
Robert Morley
Father Time
Harry Andrews
Oak
George Cole
Tylo
Richard Pearson
Bread
Valentina Ganibalova
Water
Yevgeni Shcherbakov
Fire
Leonid Nevedomsky
Father
Glikeriya Bogdanova-Chesnokova
Pleasure of eating
Sergey Filippov
Pleasure of not-understanding
Vladimir Kazarinov
Pleasure of doing nothing
Grigoriy Shpigel
Pleasure of being rich
Igor Dmitriev
Pleasure to being beautiful
Lyudmila Ksenofontova
Pleasure of knowing nothing
Yuriy Shepelev
Pleasure to drink
Grant Bardsley
Children of the future
Monique Potter
Children of the future
Anne Blackman
Children of the future
Russell Lewis
Children of the future
Steven Warner
Children of the future
James Coco
Tylo the dog
Pheona McLellan
Sick girl
Kirov Ballet Company
Dancers

Produced by

Harry N. Blum
produced in association with
Robert H. Greenberg
produced in association with
Edward Joseph
associate producer (as Teddy Joseph)
Edward Lewis
executive producer
Paul Maslansky
producer
John Palmer
associate producer
Paul B. Radin
co-producer (as Paul Radin)
Lee Savin
co-producer

Music by

Irwin Kostal

Cinematography by

Jonas Gricius
Freddie Young

Editing by

Stanford C. Allen
Tatyana Shapiro
Carl Kress
(uncredited)

Casting By

Maude Spector

Production Design by

Valery Yurkevich
(production design)

Set Decoration by

Larisa Smelova
(as L. Smelova)

Costume Design by

Marina Azizyan
(costume design)
Edith Head
(costume design)

Makeup Department

Arthur Bruckel
hair designs: Elizabeth Taylor
Vasili Goryunov
makeup artist (as Vasily Gorjunov)
Sydney Guilaroff
hair designs: Ava Gardner / hair designs: luxury sequence
Giancarlo Novelli
hair designs: Elizabeth Taylor
John O'Gorman
makeup artist
Sofia Smirnova
makeup artist
Tom Smith
makeup artist

Production Management

Aleksandr Arshansky
general manager
Oleg Danilov
production manager
John Palmer
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Mike Gowans
assistant director
Stirlin Harris
assistant director
Liliana Markova
assistant director
Yevgeni Tatarsky
co-director (as Evgeniy Tatarskiy)
Igor Usov
co-director

Art Department

Eduard Isayev
assistant set decorator (as Edward Isaev)
Viktoriya Mogilyanskaya
assistant set decorator
Tamara Polyanskaya
assistant set decorator
Inna Shershilina
assistant set decorator
Yevgeny Starikovitch
assistant set decorator (as Evgeniy Styrikovich)
Brian Wildsmith
conceptual illustrator / graphic designer

Sound Department

John Bramall
sound director
Grigori Elbert
sound director (as Grigoriy Elbert)
Gordon Everett
sound director
William Hartman
sound editor
Godfrey Marks
dialogue editor
Edward Rossi
sound editor
Ron Smith
dialogue editor
Theodore Soderberg
re-recording mixer
Clive Copland
dubbing assistant (uncredited)
William Parnell
adr editor (uncredited)

Special Effects by

Roy Field
special effects
Wayne Fitzgerald
special effects: Pacific Title
Leonid Kayukov
special effects
Lev Kholmov
special effects
Yakov Leybov
special effects
Boris Mikhaylov
special effects
Georgiy Senotov
special effects (as Georgi Senotov)
Aleksandr Zavyalov
special effects (as Aleksandr Zavialov)

Stunts

Dmitriy Shulkin
stunts
Nikolay Vashchilin
stunts

Camera and Electrical Department

Alan Annand
assistant camera
Trevor Coop
assistant camera
Freddie Cooper
camera operator
Genadi Nesterenko
assistant camera (as Gennady Nesterenkov)
Bob Penn
still photographer (as Robert Penn)
Nikolai Pokoptsev
assistant camera (as Nikolai Pokoptzev)
Anatoly Siagin
still photographer
George Whitear
still photographer
Henry Wynberg
still photographer
Ephim Zarch
chief electrician

Editorial Department

William D. Gordean
assistant film editor (as William Gordean)
John Grover
assistant editor
Ernest Walter
supervising film editor

Music Department

Irwin Kostal
conductor
Lionel Newman
music coordinator
Andrey Petrov
composer: ballet music (as Andrei Petrov)
John Richards
music recordist
Kenneth Wannberg
music editor

Script and Continuity Department

Lucie Lichtig
continuity

Additional Crew

Igor Belskiy
choreographer (as Igor Belsky)
Patricia Carr
production secretary (as Pat Carr)
Irina Golovanj
story editor
Leonid Jakobson
choreographer
Aleksei Kapler
creative consultant (as Alexei Kapler)
Alan Ladd Jr.
presenter
Grace Palmer
production secretary
Robert Rietty
dialogue coach
Irina Tarsanova
story editor
Brian Wildsmith
titles
Robert Jon Carlson
assistant to director (uncredited)
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