The Yellow Bird is a 2001 American short film adapted by Faye Dunaway from the short story by Tennessee Williams, which was itself twice-adapted by Williams from the play Summer and Smoke and its revision The Eccentricities of a Nightingale. The film was directed by Dunaway and includes Dunaway, James Coburn, Brenda Blethyn, Michael Pitt, and Cynthia Watros as Alma Tutwiler.