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The Blue Bird (1940)
Still waiting for the DVD
This is one movie I am surprised so many people have not seen. This is worth having in your collection, especially if you have kids. I remember this fondly as a child. The majority of the movie is part of the lead characters dream, but the wonderful adventure that she goes on to find the "blue bird" is enjoyable. What many today miss is the fact that the search for the blue bird is actually the search for happiness and/or hope which was needed so much during the time that it was made. Based on a play, this adaption brings up so many things young children start to ask about, life, death and what happens in between. Unlike the others movies that Shirley Temple has been in, this movie actually lets her play a character with more depth the the poor pretty princess.