Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel United States between 1990 and 1996. It was inspired by a series of short stories and two novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of "Anne of Green Gables", which Sullivan had previously adapted as "Anne of Green Gables" in 1985 and "Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel" in 1987. 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. Several actors from the first two Anne films can be seen in both "Road to Avonlea" and the "Anne of Green Gables", including Rosemary Dunsmore, Patricia Hamilton, Colleen
Anne Shirley 1919 nor 1934 versions of "Anne of Green Gables" quite got her book right. Writing about the 1934 version of "Anne of Green Gables", Montgomery wrote in her diary that it was a "thousand times" better than the 1919 version, but still it: "was so entirely different from "my" vision of the scenes and the people that it did not seem like "my" book at all". The British scholar Faye Hammill wrote that 1934 film version stripped Anne of the "Canadian and feminist" aspects that the Anne of the books possessed, stating that there was something about Anne that Hollywood