Caryll ann ekelund biography of christopher

Caryll Ann Ekelund was born on 6 May 1935 in Cottonwood, California, USA. She was an actress..

The Blue Bird (1940 film) facts for kids

Johnny Russell (foreground), Eddie Collins, and Shirley Templein a publicity photo for the film

The Blue Bird is a 1940 B&W and Technicolor American fantasy film directed by Walter Lang.

The screenplay by Walter Bullock was adapted from the 1908 play of the same name by Maurice Maeterlinck.

Four-year- old Caryll Ann Ekelund appears as an unborn child in the film, who is impatient to wait her turn to be given her gift of life.

Caryll Ann Ekelund was born on 6 May 1935 in Cottonwood, California, USA. She was an actress.

Anne Fadiman, Francis Writer in Residence; Professor in the.

Intended as 20th Century Fox's answer to MGM's The Wizard of Oz, which had been released the previous year, it was filmed in Technicolor and tells the story of a disagreeable young girl (played by Shirley Temple) and her search for happiness.

Despite being a box office flop and losing money, the film was later nominated for two Academy Awards.

It is available on both VHS and DVD.

Plot

The setting is Germany during the Napoleonic Wars. Mytyl (Shirley Temple), the bratty and ungrateful daughter of a woodcutter (Russell Hicks), finds a unique bird in the Royal Forest and selfishly refuses to give it to her sick friend, Angela (Sybil Jason).