Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well new ones like Mr Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. (Summary from Wikipedia.org). The only place to stream Anne of Green Gables and Road to Avonlea. Find out more here! Films Characters Behind the Scenes Blog Recipes Watch Now Shop. GazeboTV is a digital streaming platform featuring classic films and TV shows like Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea.

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning is a 2008 Canadian television miniseries, the fourth and final film in Sullivan Entertainment's Anne of Green Gables series.^[1] It was released in 2008 on CTV. Before the broadcast, CTV had recently acquired the rights to the entire Anne catalogue including the 1985 miniseries.^[2]

The film stars Barbara Hershey as the middle-aged Anne Shirley and 14-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas as a young Anne, with Shirley MacLaine playing matriarch Amelia Thomas. Kevin Sullivan wrote a completely new screenplay for the three-hour movie based on Montgomery's characters (serving as a prequel to his early 3 miniseries movies broadcast originally on CBC) and not directly from her books.^[2] The story follows Anne's life before she arrives at Green Gables.

Plot[edit]

Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II (This did not happen in the books). Her two daughters are preoccupied with their own young families and her adopted son Dominic has yet to return from the war. When a long-hidden secret is discovered under the floorboards at Green Gables, Anne retreats into her memories to relive her troubled early years prior to arriving as an orphan at Green Gables and being adopted by the Cuthberts.

The impact of this difficult period has a far-reaching effect on this older woman, once she discovers the truth about her real parents. She begins a delicate search for her birth father. It is a journey through a past fraught with danger, uncertainty, heartache and joy. In the parade of humanity Anne encounters, she also faces the root of her desire to find true 'kindred spirits' and an imagination to use her talents as a writer to inspire others.

Release[edit]

The telefilm premiered on Sunday December 14, 2008 on CTV; it was broadcast in high definition.^[3] In the United States, it has aired on various PBS stations since November 2010.^[4][5][6][7] The film has a running time of 138 minutes. It was released on DVD on May 5, 2009 by Sullivan Entertainment.^[1][8] The company also published a soundtrack, first available for download on January 8, 2009 and then on CD on June 16, 2009.^[9][10][11]

Prior to the film's debut, Key Porter Books published a novelization of the film by Kevin Sullivan in October 2008.^[12][13]

Cast[edit]

• Shirley MacLaine as Amelia Thomas^[14]
• Rachel Blanchard as Louisa Thomas^[15]
• Barbara Hershey as older Anne Shirley
• Hannah Endicott-Douglas as younger Anne Shirley^[14]
• Ben Carlson as Walter Shirley
• Natalie Radford as Bertha Shirley
• Ron Lea as Gene Armstrong
• Kyra Harper as Nellie Parkhurst
• Joan Gregson as Hepzibah
• Vivien Endicott-Douglas as Violetta Thomas
• Patricia Hamilton as Rachel Lynde
• James Carroll as Jeremiah Land
• Colleen Dewhurst as Marilla Cuthbert (non spoken cameo in flashback)
• Megan Follows as Anne Shirley (archive footage at beginning of the film)

Production notes[edit]

All of the movie's actual location photography was shot in various places around the Toronto, Ontario area, using existing houses, streetscapes and natural environments. Period mansions were used as the backdrop for the Thomas residences, and an historic Quaker Boys School converted into the Bolingbroke Poorhouse for the film.

When they could not film on location, the production crew and special effects team employed the technology of the green screen and CGI to digitally create the background, or specific details that location filming could not produce.

Of the major cast members from the original trilogy of films, only Patricia Hamilton reprised her original character. Barbara Hershey replaced Megan Follows as Anne (Follows appears in archive footage in a flashback). Colleen Dewhurst, who had appeared in the first two miniseries and Road to Avonlea before her death in 1991, is featured in archive footage as well. For the role of young Anne, Sullivan held a cross-Canada open casting call in July 2007, including submissions from YouTube, before Hannah Endicott-Douglas landed the part.^[16]

Reception[edit]

In its debut on CTV, the film was watched by 1,042,000 viewers, a number that was seen as low compared to Sullivan's earlier Anne productions.^[17]

The film was not well received by critics or fans. The Globe and Mail's Kate Taylor said the film, 'never justifies its presumption in inventing a new creation story for a Canadian literary icon.'^[18] Bill Brioux felt that 'maybe Anne just doesn't age all that well. Maybe she is supposed to stay in freckles and pigtails, locked in that perfect P.E.I. prism Montgomery authored and Sullivan so artfully adapted when they both were in their 20s.'^[19]

Kevin Sullivan Anne Series[edit]

1. Anne of Green Gables - 1985
2. Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel - 1987
3. Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story - 2000
4. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning - 2008

See also[edit]

• Before Green Gables, a prequel novel published in 2008.

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abKirkland, Bruce (May 8, 2009). ''Green Gables' star's dream comes true'. Canoe.com. Postmedia Network. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
2. ^ ^abNew 'Anne of Green Gables' coming to CTV May 11, 2008
3. ^'CTV Premieres ANNE OF GREEN GABLES: A NEW BEGINNING, December 14'. CTV. Newswire. November 12, 2008. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
4. ^'NOVEMBER 2010 Membership Magazine for the Friends of IdahoPTV Volume 16, Issue 11'(PDF). Idaho Public Television. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
5. ^'Re: When will Anne 4 air in the US?'. October 28, 2010. Retrieved March 16, 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
6. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'. WXXI Public Broadcasting Council. September 2, 2012. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
7. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'. WTVI. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
8. ^'New on DVD: Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning; India Reborn; Look; Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero; Wendy and Lucy'. The Georgia Straight. April 30, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
9. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'. L.M. Montgomery Online. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
10. ^'Peter Breiner - Anne of Green Gables: New Beginning - O.S.T. - Amazon.com Music'. Amazon. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
11. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning - Original Soundtrack by Peter Breiner on Apple Music'. iTunes. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
12. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning by Kevin Sullivan - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, List'. Goodreads. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
13. ^'Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning'. L.M. Montgomery Online. Retrieved March 16, 2017.
14. ^ ^abDeMara, Bruce. 'The once and future Anne Shirley'. The Star. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
15. ^Taylor, Kate. 'The Anne mine keeps on giving'. The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
16. ^Stevens, Michael (June 28, 2007). 'Casting Call: 'Anne of Green Gables' Prequel'. Sneakpeak.ca. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
17. ^Brioux, Bill (December 15, 2008). 'Survivor, Rudolph Sleigh Green Gables'. Brioux.tv.
18. ^Kate Taylor (December 12, 2008). 'The Anne mine keeps on giving, unfortunately'. The Globe and Mail. CTVglobemedia. Archived from the original on February 17, 2009. Retrieved March 16, 2017.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
19. ^Brioux, Bill (December 14, 2008). 'Anne of the Windy Storyline'. Brioux.tv. Retrieved March 16, 2017.

External links[edit]

• Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning on IMDb
• L.M. Montgomery Online This scholarly site includes a blog, a bibliography of reference materials, and a complete filmography of all adaptations of Montgomery texts. See, in particular, the page for Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel is a 1987 Canadian television miniseries film. It is a sequel to the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, and the second of a tetralogy of films, based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island and Anne of Windy Poplars.

The miniseries aired in four hour-long installments, in May and June 1987, on the Disney Channel as Anne of Avonlea: The Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables, and in two 150-minute installments, in December 1987 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and in March 1988 on PBS, as Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel.^[2] The film was also shown theatrically in Israel, Japan, and Europe as Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel and has been released on DVD under that title.

Finally, in 2017, the miniseries was officially retitled Anne of Avonlea for its North American Blu-ray Disc release by Sullivan Films, as part of the Anne of Green Gables Collector's Set.

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Synopsis[edit]

Anne concludes teaching at Avonlea School and has dreams of becoming a writer, but her story 'Averil's Atonement' is rejected by a magazine. Leaving the post office one day, Anne runs into Gilbert Blythe, who tells her that her best friend Diana Barry is engaged to Fred Wright. Anne is initially bewildered by Diana's decision, calling it impulsive. Meanwhile, in the last two years, Marilla's eyesight has greatly improved. Having regained her independence, Marilla encourages Anne to resume her old ambition of attending college.

At the clambake celebrating Fred and Diana's engagement, Anne and Gilbert wander off to a bridge, where Gilbert proposes. Anne rejects his offer, convinced that their marriage would be unhappy and unsuccessful. She runs off.

At Diana's wedding, Anne sees Gilbert with a young woman named Christine Stuart. Gilbert tells Anne that he and Christine are just friends, then offers to wait for her if there is any hope of them getting together. Anne rejects him again, and Gilbert suspects that there is someone else, despite Anne's assertion there is no person she cares about more than him. Anne returns to Green Gables and decides to look into the job her former teacher Miss Muriel Stacey offered her. Eventually, Anne decides to take this job as an English teacher at Kingsport, Nova Scotia Ladies' College in the hope that it will inspire her and give her something to write about.

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Initially, Anne finds her new job to be difficult. A member of the local community — and member of the powerful Pringle family — had also tried for Anne's post and was rejected, causing resentment. However, Anne gradually earns the respect of her students, their families and her colleagues, including the severe and critical Katherine Brooke and the Pringle family. Anne organizes a play to raise money for the college, which is greatly appreciated. While teaching at the Ladies' College, Anne grows close to one student, Emmeline Harris, whom she tutors at Maplehurst, the house where Emmeline lives with her stern, controlling grandmother, Mrs. Harris, and her repressed Aunt Pauline (Mrs. Harris' daughter) who is a virtual prisoner in the house. Anne is able to convince the grandmother, a hypochondriac, to leave the house and go to a community picnic, and to let Pauline attend a friend's wedding overnight in another town, where she strikes up a romance. Her dream of being published is also finally achieved after she writes a series of short stories based on Avonlea inspired by a suggestion from Gilbert. Anne also succeeds in getting the spinster teacher Katherine Brooke to spend a badly-needed summer vacation at Avonlea, where she opens up her feelings to Anne.

Emmeline's widowed father Morgan Harris, a well-to-do traveling businessman, also proposes marriage to Anne, after Anne and Emmeline had visited his spacious house in Boston. Anne declines Morgan Harris' proposal and returns to Green Gables, where she learns that Gilbert is ill nearby with scarlet fever, having returned home from Halifax Medical School. Anne finally realizes her true feelings for Gilbert, and goes to visit him. After Gilbert regains his health, he proposes once more, and Anne accepts him with a kiss, declaring, 'I don't want diamond sunbursts, or marble halls. I just want you.'

Timeline of events (1902–1903)[edit]

• Late spring 1902 – Anne, now 18, finishes teaching at Avonlea school.
• Summer 1902 – Diana marries Fred, Anne takes a teaching position at Kingsport Ladies College.
• September 1902 – Anne begins teaching at Kingsport Ladies College.
• 26 November 1902 – Production date of Anne's play at Kingsport Ladies College.
• Summer 1903 – Katherine Brooke spends summer break with Anne at Green Gables. Anne commits to Gilbert.

Cast[edit]

• Megan Follows - Anne Shirley
• Colleen Dewhurst - Marilla Cuthbert
• Patricia Hamilton - Rachel Lynde
• Wendy Hiller - Mrs. Harris
• Frank Converse - Morgan Harris
• Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
• Schuyler Grant - Diana Barry
• Marilyn Lightstone - Miss Stacey
• Rosemary Dunsmore - Katherine Brooke
• Kate Lynch - Pauline Harris
• Genevieve Appleton - Emmeline Harris
• Susannah Hoffman - Jen Pringle
• Mag Ruffman - Alice Lawson
• Bruce McCulloch - Fred Wright
• Dave Foley - Lewis Allen

Awards and nominations[edit]

• 2 Cable Ace Awards: Best Costume, Best Supporting Actress (Colleen Dewhurst), 1987
• 6 Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Miniseries, Best Photography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Performance by Lead Actress (Megan Follows), Best Performance by a Supporting Actress (Colleen Dewhurst), 1988
• Silver Award - International Film and Television Festival, New York, 1987
• Best Family Series - TV Guide, 1987
• CFTA Award - Best New TV Production, 1987
• Chris Award - Columbus International Film Festival, 1987
• Honourable Mention - International San Francisco Film Festival, 1988
• Crystal Apple Award - National Education Film and Video Festival, 1988
• ACT Award - Achievement in Children's TV, 1988
• Golden Hugo Award - Chicago International Film Festival, 1987
• Gold Award - Houston International Film Festival, 1987

Sequels and spinoffs[edit]

Road to Avonlea is a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was inspired by a series of short stories and two novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Many of the actors in the Anne of Green Gables movies also appear in storylines crossing over into the long-running Emmy award-winning series, including Patricia Hamilton (Rachel Lynde), Colleen Dewhurst (Marilla Cuthbert until her death in 1991), and Marilyn Lightstone (Muriel Stacy). Other actors from the first two Anne films portrayed different characters in Road to Avonlea, including Rosemary Dunsmore, who played Katherine Brooke in this film but returned as 'Abigail MacEwan' in the television series.

Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was released in 2000, and followed Anne Shirley as she embarked on a new journey, taking her from her home in Prince Edward Island to New York City, London, and into war-ravaged Europe. This film is an original story not based on any of Montgomery's novels.

Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning was released in fall 2008, and serves as a prequel to the previous films in the Anne movie trilogy. Like The Continuing Story, this film is not based on any work by Montgomery. Set between two different time periods, Anne Shirley, now in her fifties, looks back on her early childhood before arriving at Green Gables only to uncover answers to questions that have plagued her throughout her life.

Production[edit]

When Kevin Sullivan was commissioned by CBC, PBS and The Disney Channel to create a sequel he started by combining many different elements of Montgomery's three later books: Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne of the Island (1915), and Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) into a cohesive screen story. Sullivan invented his own plotline relying on several of Montgomery's episodic storylines spread across the three sequels, He also looked at numerous other nineteenth century female authors for inspiration in fleshing out the screen story.

The film succeeded in re-popularizing Megan Follows and Colleen Dewhurst in their original roles. Sullivan also cast British veteran actress and Oscar winner, Wendy Hiller, in the role of the impossible Mrs. Harris, a character Sullivan specifically invented for the storyline, based on a composite of several matriarchs found in the series of novels.

In Canada, the film became the highest rated drama to air on network television in Canadian broadcasting history. This Sequel became known as Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel when shown around the world, and as Anne of Avonlea - the Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables when it premiered on The Disney Channel.

ACE Award nomination[edit]

Megan Follows was nominated for an ACE Award in 1988 by the National Academy of Cable Programing in the Ninth Annual System Awards for Cable Excellence for Disney's 'Anne of Avonlea'.^[3]

Home Box Office led with 112 nominations for the ACE Award, or Award for Cable Excellence. Showtime got 48, Arts & Entertainment 33, and the Disney Channel and Cable News Network 10 each. 30 categories of the 174 ACE Awards were presented on a live broadcast on HBO on January 24, 1988. The other categories were presented at a non-televised dinner in Las Vegas on Jan. 22, 1988. The ACE awards were established after cable programs and performers were excluded from the Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Cable Programming^[4] was established in March 1985 to promote excellence in cable television programming.^[3]

External links[edit]

• The Official Anne of Green Gables Movie Website - The official website of Sullivan series of Anne of Green Gables movies
• Sullivan Entertainment Website - The Official website of Sullivan Entertainment. Includes information on the Anne movies and its spinoffs
• Road to Avonlea Website - The official website for Road to Avonlea, the spinoff to the Green Gables series of movies
• Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel on IMDb
• L.M. Montgomery Online Formerly the L.M. Montgomery Research Group, this site includes a blog, extensive lists of primary and secondary materials, detailed information about Montgomery's publishing history, and a filmography of screen adaptations of Montgomery texts. See, in particular, the page for Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel.

References[edit]

1. ^Johnson, Brian D. 'ANNE OF GREEN GABLES GROWS UP Maclean's DECEMBER 7, 1987'. Maclean's / The Complete Archive. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
2. ^'Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel'. L.M. Montgomery Online. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
3. ^ ^ab'ACE Nominees Announced'. Houston. HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 2 STAR Edition. Associated Press. November 10, 1987. p. 7. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013.
4. ^'About the NCTA'. National Cable & Telecommunications Association. 1996. Archived from the original on 2007-12-14.