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But the moment that makes me tear up just thinking about it is when Anne’s elderly foster parent Matthew Cuthbert ( Richard Farnsworth) gives her a light-blue dress with puffed sleeves. There’s so much to treasure in the CBC’s 1985 Anne of Green Gables series: for example, every time that dreamy Gilbert ( Jonathan Crombie) looks at our hero Anne with love, amusement, and a proud kind of awe. We’ve rounded up a group of writers who grew up on the 1980s version to explain why that Anne-and the gentle books she springs from-are such a hard act to follow. But this new version will have to work as hard as the fictional Miss Shirley herself to win over a generation raised on the warm and cozy version. The always-popular ginger is the subject of several new film, stage, and TV adaptations, including a gritty reimagining by Breaking Bad alum Moira Walley-Beckett that was first broadcast by the CBC and will air on Netflix starting this Friday. We are now in the midst of another Anne boom. Montgomery novels, and inspiring a generation of women to emulate the brainy, ambitious, hot-tempered, and kind-hearted Anne. (on PBS and, later, the Disney Channel), the four-hour event and its 1987 sequel, Anne of Avonlea, became instant classics-winning Emmy and Peabody Awards, reinvigorating interest in the L.M. At the time, the CBC production was the most popular TV program to ever air in Canada.

In fact, Anne has inspired a number of films, TV shows, and stage productions.īut outside of Japan, one adaptation in particular-the 1985 Canadian Anne of Green Gables mini-series, starring Megan Follows and directed by Kevin Sullivan-struck a nerve. Anne is big in Japan thanks, in some part, to a 1979 anime version of Anne of Green Gables. Anne has kept the tourism industry in her home of Prince Edward Island booming, particularly among Japanese fans. The character was so immediately popular that Montgomery penned seven sequels to Anne of Green Gables over three decades.

A stirring and charming follow-up, to the epic tale of the beguiling red-head.Small, smart, redheaded, scrappy, and imaginative, Anne Shirley has been winning hearts and minds ever since Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery introduced her to the world in 1908. Tony Award-winner Colleen Dewhurst stars opposite her as aging Marilla Cuthbert and Oscar-winning actress Dame Wendy Hiller appears as the prickly dowager Mrs. Canadian actress Megan Follows returns to her role as Anne. However, after a chance encounter with Gilbert, Anne begins to re-evaluate what is important to her. Anne and Emmeline become fast friends, and Anne quickly forces her way into the Harris family and ultimately changes their lives.

Harris, and wants nothing more than to be loved by her absent father, Morgan Harris. Anne finds a kindred spirit in Emmeline Harris, who is being raised by her intolerant grandmother, Mrs. In order to succeed, Anne must win over the icy Katherine Brooke and endure tormenting from the snobby Pringle family. After the wedding of her best friend, Diana Barry, and a proposal from Gilbert, Anne decides to leave Avonlea to accept a teaching post at Kingsport Ladies College. In this enchanting sequel to the Emmy Award-winning ‘Anne of Green Gables’, Anne Shirley makes the transition from a romantic, impetuous orphan to an outspoken, adventurous and accomplished young teacher.

Watch anne of green gables the sequel 1987 online