Anne of Green Gables, Part 2 (Ep. 66)

It's been a long time coming, but Adapt or Perish is finally going back to Avonlea to revisit L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables!

In this episode we discuss:

• L.M. Montgomery's original 1908 novel.
• Anne of Green Gables (RKO, 1934), directed by George Nicholls, Jr., written by Sam Mintz, and starring Anne Shirley (!), Tom Brown, Helen Westley, and O.P. Heggie.
• Akage no An (Nippon Animation, 1979), written and directed by Isao Takahata, with contributions from Hayao Miyazaki.
• Anne of Green Gables (CBC, 1985), written and directed by Kevin Sullivan, and starring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, and Jonathan Crombie.
• L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (YTV, 2016), directed by John Kent Harrison, written by Susan Coyne, and starring Ella Ballentine, Sara Botsford, and Martin Sheen.
• Anne with an E (CBC/Netflix, 2017–2019), created by Moira Walley-Beckett, and starring Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James, R.H. Thomson, and Lucas Jade Zumann.

Footnotes:

• Our first look at Anne of Green Gables, Episode One of Adapt or Perish
• All the other Anne of Green Gables adaptations we couldn't get
• "Why Anne of Green Gables Is Big In Japan" from the HuffPost
• "Anne of Green Gables: The Most Popular Redhead in Japan" from BBC News
• "Kawaii," Japan's culture of cuteness
• Arielle's dramatic reading of Anne on Librivox
• Slings & Arrows (2003–2006)

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