Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) fierce rivalry turns to a secret affection, which blossoms into love. Marilla tries to prevent Anne from seeing Gilbert because Anne is still quite young and Marilla wants Anne to continue her education. In the end, however, when Matthew dies and forces Marilla into considering selling Green Gables, Gilbert gives Anne his teaching post in nearby Avonlea so she can stay at Green Gables and continue to support Marilla. Kevin Sullivan adapted the novel into his own screenplay, collaborating with industry veteran Joe Wiesenfeld. Sullivan developed a co-production between the CBC and PBS in order to film "Anne of Green
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