Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story was a 2000 miniseries television film, and the third installment in a series of four films. The film was highly anticipated among fans of Anne of Green Gables. It borrowed characters from the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It served as a sequel to two mini-series produced by CBC Television in the 1980s. It was the most controversial and heavily criticized of the three film adaptations written and produced by Kevin Sullivan.

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The Continuing Story was criticized principally because unlike the 1985 Anne of Green Gables and its 1987 sequel Anne of Avonlea, the screenplay was not based upon Montgomery's works, but instead used Montgomery's characters in a largely original World War I story by Sullivan and Laurie Pearson. Montgomery had written an Anne novel set in that same period, Rilla of Ingleside, a story focusing on Anne's youngest daughter, and in which Anne was a mother whose three sons were fighting in Europe.

The chronology of Sullivan's Anne of Green Gables films is not in synch with the LM Montgomery novels, largely because of the spin-off series Road to Avonlea. Over 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 King refers to Gilbert and Anne Blythe, stating they were married. Anne does not appear in the Avonlea episode because she is sick with scarlet fever. The Continuing Story, which takes place five years later, attempts to resolve the discontinuity by revealing that Anne had scarlet fever while she was teaching at an orphanage in Nova Scotia.

Megan Follows reprised the role of Anne Shirley, with Jonathan Crombie reprising his Gilbert Blythe role. Several other cast members from the first two miniseries also appear.

Synopsis[edit]

Anne Shirley returns to Avonlea after five years of teaching at an orphanage in Nova Scotia while separated from her fiancé, Gilbert Blythe, who was finishing medical school. After catching up with Diana Barry and other old friends. Anne and Diana visit Green Gables, and a horrified Anne realizes that since Marilla's death in an episode of Road to Avonlea the owners have treated Green Gables so poorly, that it is coming apart. Later, Anne is reunited with Gilbert on the island. However, instead of settling down immediately, Gilbert asks Anne to move to New York since he has been offered a staff position at Bellevue, a prestigious medical institution. Her reluctant agreement comes with the promise of being published and that they will return to Prince Edward Island to raise their family.

In New York, Anne is employed as a junior editor at a small publishing house, where she meets Jack Garrison, a writer and local sensation who becomes interested in Anne. Seeing her potential as a writer, he offers to become the editor for her new manuscript and use his influence to have it published under both their names. He threatens to jump from a window if Anne does not accept his help. When the manuscript is accepted, Anne is outraged to learn that Jack has presented it as entirely his own, and the publisher refuses to give her credit. She breaks off contact with Jack, who reveals he has fallen in love with her. Meanwhile, Gilbert is troubled by his work at Belleview hospital - most of the doctors are more interested in prestige than in saving lives. Disillusioned by life in New York, Anne and Gilbert return to Prince Edward Island.

Upon returning to Avonlea, Gilbert buys Green Gables from Mr. Harrison and they set about restoring the house as they plan their wedding. Anne accidentally starts a fire, slightly damaging the house. However, the couple find the effect of the war in Europe to be much more present; Fred Wright, Diana's husband, eventually enlists in the war as his family life becomes increasingly strained. Naruto ultimate ninja storm fights. Increasing pressure results in Gilbert enlisting as medical officer and he convinces Anne to marry him before he leaves. When he is declared missing in action, Anne leaves for Europe as a Red Cross volunteer in hopes of finding him.

Anne's desperate search in the war zone leads to a chance meeting with Jack Garrison, along with his wife, Colette, and their infant son, Dominic. Jack, involved in dangerous espionage activities, leaves suddenly and asks that Anne take Colette and Dominic to London. However, Colette is killed in an explosion, while Anne briefly sees Gilbert as his troop is forced to abandon their field hospital. Anne promises Colette on her last breath to take care of Dominic and find his father. Left to care for Dominic, Anne finds an injured Fred and his arm must be amputated. They leave for London and reside in Jack's apartment until they can return to Canada; in that time, Anne works for a British newspaper office and becomes acquainted with Fergus Keegan, Jack's editor, and Maude Montrose, one of Jack's contemporaries and a fellow spy. When Jack arrives to make arrangements for his family, he learns of Colette's death and asks for Anne to care for Dominic should anything happen to him. Though Anne intends to return to Canada with Fred and Dominic, her connection to Jack as well as a resurfacing chance of finding Gilbert results in taking Dominic with her to France.

Disguised as a nun and befriending entertainers Margaret Bush and Elsie James, Anne struggles to bring Dominic to Kit Garrison, Jack's aunt who has also become involved in war efforts. Reunited again with Jack, Anne travels with him in hopes of finding her husband Gilbert. As Anne's search continues to be fruitless, Jack attempts to persuade her to return with him to the United States and form a family with him and Dominic; Anne refuses, determined to continue searching for Gilbert in the war zone. When she encounters Margaret and Elsie again, she joins them in entertaining the soldiers; in the crowd is Gilbert and Anne is reunited with him at last. Jack arranges for them to leave immediately as the armistice to end the war approaches. However, Keegan's fear of being exposed as a traitor by Jack's group results in Jack being shot on the train; as he dies, he asks that Anne take care of his son. Once the armistice is declared, Anne and Gilbert attempt to find Dominic, but after finding Kit Garrison's château empty, they are forced to return to Canada in hopes of finding the child from home.

After a year of living back in Avonlea, Anne and Gilbert arrive at the local train station to collect Dominic, whom they are adopting as their own. They decide to leave Green Gables to Diana and Fred while they 'make a new life, but built on all the old foundations' and 'build a good home, and raise a family, with lots of scope for the imagination.'

Cast[edit]

• Megan Follows - Anne Shirley Blythe
• Jonathan Crombie - Gilbert Blythe
• Schuyler Grant - Diana Barry Wright
• Patricia Hamilton - Rachel Lynde
• Greg Spottiswood - Fred Wright
• Cameron Daddo - Jack Garrison Jr.
• Sonia LaPlante - Colette
• Shannon Lawson - Elsie James
• Victoria Snow - Margaret Bush
• Janet-Laine Green - Maud Montrose
• Martha Henry - Kit Garrison
• Nigel Bennett - Fergus Keegan
• Douglas Campbell - Dr. Powell
• Colette Stevenson - Mrs. Findlay
• Zack Ward - Moody Spurgeon
• Miranda de Pencier - Josie Pye Spurgeon
• Lauren Peters/Nicole Peters - Dominic

Production[edit]

The third Anne film was a completely original concept that brought Anne and the other Avonlea characters (from both the Road to Avonlea television series and the previous two Anne of Green Gables films) into a time period when each character was faced with personal turmoil as a result of World War I. Sullivan's portrayal of Anne and Gilbert in this third film does not coincide chronologically with Montgomery's novels; Rilla of Ingleside portrays Anne's sons going off to fight in World War I while Anne and husband Gilbert witness the War from the home-front of Prince Edward Island. (Rilla, the youngest daughter, raises someone else's little boy for a few years; he is referred to by the family as 'Rilla's war-baby' and he was presumably the inspiration for Dominic in Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story.)

While The Continuing Story was set in New York, England, France and Germany, it filmed almost entirely in studio or on locations in Montreal and Southern Ontario, including Toronto.

Sequel[edit]

In fall 2008, another film in the series, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning was released, showing Anne as an older woman looking back at her life as a child before her arrival at Green Gables.

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

External links[edit]

• Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story on IMDb
• An L.M. Montgomery Resource Page^{[permanent dead link]} - resource on L. M. Montgomery and her legacy in film
• 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: The Continuing Story.

Tiggzi mobile app builder. 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 14-year-old Hannah Endicott-Douglas as the child and Barbara Hershey as the adult Anne Shirley. Shirley MacLaine plays matriarch Amelia Thomas in the film. 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 reprises her original character in the fourth film, with Hershey taking over the role from Megan Follows though Follows appears as Anne towards the beginning of the film in archive footage. Archive footage is used to allow Colleen Dewhurst, who had appeared in the first two miniseries and Road to Avonlea, and who had died in 1991, to appear in a flashback cameo. 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. Retrieved March 16, 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
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.