Anne of Green Gables 1934

      This film is adapted from a novel in a series by Lucy Maude Montgomery.  The setting is the year of 1908, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla live on a farm on Prince Edward Island, Canada.  They have asked to adopt a boy and Matthew has gone to the train station to pick him up.  Matthew would like a boy to help him with the farm work.  There is a surprise when he gets to the station, there is a girl instead of a boy and she is very talkative.  Matthew doesn’t know what Marilla is going to say or do when she sees him arrive home with a girl?  Matthew says he can hire a boy to help him and Marilla may find the girl to be good company.  Marilla decides to see if Mrs. Blewett would like the girl to help her with her children.  This doesn’t work out at all and Marilla says she would not leave a dog she liked at Mrs. Blewett’s house!!  Matthew, Marilla and everyone in the village grow to love Anne Shirley.

     I thought this was interesting and enjoyable.  Marilla likes everything just so in her home and Anne manages to get a trouble all the time.  She gets into trouble her first day at school too.  Children in this time period had chores like churning milk into butter.  3 ½* (I liked this movie) 

78 min, Comedy directed by George Nichols Jr. with Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Sara Haden Murray Kinnell, Gertrude Messinger, Charley Grapewin, Hilda Vaughn, June Preston.

Note:  Imdb 7.1 out of 10, 78% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.0* out of 5* with 49 reviews.

Special Note:  Actress Anne Shirley was born in 1918 and she died in 1993.  She changed her name from Dawn Evelyeen Paris to Anne Shirley because she liked this name much better.  She had several other names before legally changing her name at the age of 16.