Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story the course of developing original characters and stories for seven seasons of "Road to Avonlea", the time frame of Sullivan's fictional world evolved into a 20-year difference from the Montgomery novels. As a result, Sullivan decided to make "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story" a completely original work that took Anne and Gilbert to the battlefields of World War I instead of their children as in Montgomery's novels. The film was also criticised for introducing a continuity problem. Following Colleen Dewhurst's death in 1991, Marilla Cuthbert's death was written into the series "Road to Avonlea". At Marilla's funeral, Hetty
Anne of Green Gables (1919 film) introduced – both equally unknown in PE Island. I could have shrieked with rage over the latter. Such crass, blatant Yankeeism!" Anne of Green Gables (1919 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor. The film was based upon the novel of the same name by Lucy Maud Montgomery. By 1999, all prints of the film were believed to have been lost. As described in a film magazine, Anne Shirley (Minter), whose orphan career has been a lively one due to her natural mischievousness, is sent by mistake to the home