Anne of Green Gables
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
William Desmond Taylor
Mary Miles Minter
Paul Kelly
Marcia Harris
Frederick Burton
F. T. Chailee
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert adopt a lively child named Anne Shirley to live with them on their farm, Green Gables. Although Anne's whimsical nature is at first misunderstood by her unimaginative foster mother, the two come to love each other. Anne's antagonists are Mrs. Pie, the village gossip, and her malicious daughter Josie. Anne is involved in many mischievous adventures as a girl, but after her graduation, she becomes the village schoolmistress and saves her meager earnings for an operation that will restore her mother's failing sight. One of her pupils, Anthony Pie, claims that Anne beat him cruelly and broke his arm. Reverend Figtree, however, reveals to the angry townspeople that he saw Anthony break his arm when he fell from a haywagon. Exonerated, Anne marries her sweetheart, Gilbert Blythe.
Director
William Desmond Taylor
Cast
Mary Miles Minter
Paul Kelly
Marcia Harris
Frederick Burton
F. T. Chailee
Leila Romer
Lincoln Stedman
Hazel Sexton
Russell Hewitt
Albert Hackett
Laurie Lovelle
Carolyn Lee
Jack B. Hollis
George Stewart
Film Details
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As of 1999, all prints of this film are believed to be lost.
Notes
The film was also based on Montgomery's other "Anne" novels: Anne of Avonlea, 1909; Chronicles of Avonlea, 1912; and Anne of the Island, 1915. Exterior scenes were filmed in Dedham, MA. Many contemporary sources list George Stewart as having played the role of Gilbert Blythe, but photographs from the production support those sources that credit Kelly with the role. RKO remade the film in 1934 with Anne Shirley in the lead and George Nicholls, Jr. directing, and used the Montgomery novels again in 1940 for Anne of Windy Poplars, directed by Jack Hively and again starring Shirley.
