Anne of Windy Poplars
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jack Hively
Anne Shirley
James Ellison
Henry Travers
Patric Knowles
Slim Summerville
Film Details
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Synopsis
Anne Shirley, a newly appointed vice principal, arrives in the town of Pringleton to assume her post at the local school. Anne soon learns that the entire town is dominated by the tyrannical Pringle family, headed by the dour, old matriarch Hester Pringle. Hester, who was promoting the post of vice principal for her adopted relative Catherine, does everything in her power to insure that Anne's life will be miserable. Anne even has difficulty finding a room to rent until she is finally taken in at Windy Poplars by Matey and Kate, a brother and sister who have little regard for the Pringle family. There, Anne meets Betty Grayson, the little orphan who lives next door with her cruel aunt, Ernestine Pringle. Under Hester's orders, many obstacles are placed in Anne's path as she discovers that her duties are much greater than she had anticipated. However, with kindness, Anne gradually wins over Catherine, her nephew Tony and niece Jen. After Hester suffers a heart attack and dies, all vestiges of gloom are dispelled from the town of Pringleton, and all ends happily as Anne, now a welcome member of the community, plans to marry her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe, and adopt little Betty.
Director
Jack Hively
Cast
Anne Shirley
James Ellison
Henry Travers
Patric Knowles
Slim Summerville
Elizabeth Patterson
Louise Campbell
Joan Carroll
Katharine Alexander
Minnie Dupree
Alma Kruger
Marcia Mae Jones
Ethel Griffies
Clara Blandick
Gilbert Emery
Wright Kramer
Jackie Moran
Kathryn Sheldon
Leona Roberts
Lew Kelly
George Meader
Harold Entwistle
Granville Bates
Margaret Armstrong
Phyllis Kennedy
Ellen Lowe
Nora Cecil
Ruth Dietrich
Grady Sutton
Effie Parnell
Joe Bernard
William Edmunds
Sarah Edwards
Leo Cleary
Frank Darien
Ethel Wales
Gus Glassmire
Ed Le Saint
Catherine Courtney
Bob Mckenzie
Antoinette Rochte
Netta Parker
Crew
Jerry Cady
John L. Cass
Albert D'agostino
George Hively
Michael Kanin
Lee Marcus
Van Nest Polglase
Frank Redman
Cliff Reid
Dewey Starkey
Edward Stevenson
Douglas Travers
Vernon L. Walker
Roy Webb
Film Details
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Notes
According to news items in Hollywood Reporter, George Nicholls Jr. was originally slated to direct this picture in July 1939. In November 1939, Garson Kanin was assigned to direct, but when he turned down the assignment, the picture was shelved until March 1940. Actress Anne Shirley was known as Dawn O'Day until she changed her name to Anne Shirley in 1934 after she was assigned the title role of Anne of Green Gables of which this picture is a sequel.
