;Buildings • The popularity of the books and subsequent film adaptations is credited with inspiring the design and naming of buildings "Green Gables". An example still standing is an apartment block called "Green Gables" built in the 1930s, in New Farm, Queensland, Australia. ;Museum •
Bala's Museum, located in
Bala, Ontario, Canada, is a house museum established in 1992 and dedicated to Lucy M. Montgomery information and heritage. The house was a tourist home owned by Fanny Pike when Montgomery and her family stayed there on a summer vacation in 1922. That visit to the region inspired the novel
The Blue Castle (1926). The town is named Deerwood in the novel; this was Montgomery's only narrative setting outside
Atlantic Canada. ;Postage stamps • On May 15, 1975,
Canada Post issued
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables designed by Peter Swan and typographed by Bernard N.J. Reilander. The 8¢ stamps are perforated 13 and were printed by Ashton-Potter Limited. • In 2008, Canada Post issued
two postage stamps and a souvenir sheet honouring Anne and the "Green Gables" house. ;Reading lists • In 2003,
Anne of Green Gables was ranked number 41 in
The Big Read, a
BBC survey of the British public to determine the "nation's best-loved novel" (not children's novel). • In 2012, it was ranked number nine among all-time children's novels in a survey published by
School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience. ==Adaptations==
Films '' (1919) The first filmed appearance of Anne Shirley was in the 1919 silent film,
Anne of Green Gables, in which the role was played by
Mary Miles Minter. The film was directed by
William Desmond Taylor. As of 2011, no prints of this silent film adaptation are known to survive. The 1919 film version moved the story from Prince Edward Island to New England, which one American critic—unaware that the novel was set in Canada—praised for "the genuine New England atmosphere called for by the story". Montgomery herself was infuriated with the film for changing Anne from a Canadian to an American, writing in her diary: It was a pretty little play well photographed, but I think if I hadn't already known it was from my book, that I would never had recognized it. The landscape and folks were 'New England', never P.E Island...A skunk and an American flag were introduced - both equally unknown in PE Island. I could have shrieked with rage over the latter. Such crass, blatant Yankeeism!. In the
1934 adaptation of the novel, Anne was portrayed by
Dawn O'Day, who legally changed her name to "Anne Shirley." She reprised the role in
Anne of Windy Poplars, a 1940 film adaptation. Montgomery liked the 1934 film more than the 1919 film, not least because now the book's dialogue could be portrayed on the silver screen and that two scenes were filmed on location in Prince Edward Island (though the rest of the film was shot in California), but still charged that neither the 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". •
Anne of Green Gables (1954), a Canadian radio drama produced and broadcast by
CBC Radio, adapted into 13 parts by Andrew Allen and starring
Toby Tarnow as Anne. •
Anna zo Zeleného domu (1966), a Slovak radio drama produced and broadcast by Czechoslovak Radio, starring Anna Bučinská as Anne. •
Anne of Green Gables (1971), a British radio drama produced and broadcast by
BBC Radio 4, adapted into 13 parts by Cristina Sellors, and read by Ann Murray. •
Anne of Green Gables (1997), a British radio drama produced and broadcast by BBC Radio 4, dramatized into five parts by Marcy Kahan and starred Barbara Barnes as Anne.
Stage productions •
Anne of Green Gables: The Musical, performed annually in the summer, at
Charlottetown Festival, since 1965, this is Canada's longest-running main stage musical production, and has had a total audience of more than 2 million.
Anne of Green Gables – The Musical was composed by Canadians
Don Harron and
Norman Campbell, with lyrics by Elaine Campbell and
Mavor Moore. The production has been performed before
Queen Elizabeth II and it has toured across Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan. In 1969, it had a run in
London's
West End. The Charlottetown Festival production performed at the
1970 World's Fair in
Osaka, Japan.
Walter Learning directed and organized a successful national tour of the musical in Japan in 1991. • The Guild in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, hosts
Anne and Gilbert, The Musical. Written by
Nancy White, Bob Johnston, and Jeff Hochhauser, the production is based on Montgomery's sequels featuring Anne Shirley. •
Theatreworks USA, a New York-based children's theatre company, produced an
Anne of Green Gables musical in 2006 at the
Lucille Lortel Theatre. A revived production, with musical contributions from
Gretchen Cryer, is planned to tour grade-schools. •
Anne and Gilbert is a musical adaptation of the books
Anne of Avonlea and
Anne of the Island. It depicts the relationship of Anne and Gilbert during their years as teachers and college students, and their return to Avonlea. • A "folk-rock" adaptation entitled
Anne of Green Gables by Matte O'Brien and Matt Vinson was premiered at the 2018 Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival, with a subsequent 2020 concept album and a 2022 production at
Goodspeed Opera House.
Television films and episodic series (animated) •
Akage no An (1979;
Red-Haired Anne), an animated television series, part of
Nippon Animation's
World Masterpiece Theater, produced in Japan and directed by
Isao Takahata. •
Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series (2001), a
PBS Kids animated series for older children ages eight to twelve, created by
Sullivan Entertainment Inc. •
Anne: Journey to Green Gables (2005), an animated video film produced by
Sullivan Entertainment and the prequel to
Anne of Green Gables: The Animated Series (2001–2002) • ''
Kon'nichiwa Anne: Before Green Gables (2009), part of the World Masterpiece Theater, this prequel to Akage no An'' is based on
Budge Wilson's authorized prequel
Before Green Gables (2008). •
Anne Shirley (2025), an animated television series adaptation produced in Japan by
The Answer Studio and directed by Hiroshi Kawamata, adapts the novel for the first ten episodes.
Television films and miniseries •
Anne of Green Gables (1952), a BBC television series starring Carole Lorimer as Anne. Broadcast live, no recordings are thought to have ever existed, as it was made before
telerecording was practiced by the BBC. •
Anne of Green Gables (1956), a made-for-television musical version directed by
Norman Campbell and starring
Toby Tarnow as Anne. •
Anne de Green Gables (1957), a French-Canadian television film directed by Jacques Gauthier, starring Mireille Lachance as Anne Shirley. •
Anne of Green Gables (1958), a recreation of the 1956 film directed by
Don Harron, starring
Kathy Willard as Anne. •
Anne of Green Gables (1972), a British made-for-television 5-part mini-series directed by Joan Craft, starring
Kim Braden as Anne. •
Anne of Avonlea (1975), a British made-for-television 4-part mini-series sequel directed by Joan Craft, starring
Kim Braden as Anne. •
Anne of Green Gables (1985), a
CBC four-hour television mini series directed by
Kevin Sullivan with
Megan Follows as Anne; widely considered the definitive version to date. •
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987), a sequel to the 1985 miniseries which aired on CBC and the
Disney Channel as
Anne of Avonlea: The Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables. Follows reprises her role. •
Road to Avonlea (1990–1996) shown on
CBC, a live-action television spin-off series based upon characters and episodes from several of
L.M. Montgomery's other books. Anne herself never appears but other characters from the previous two films are included, and the series is set within the same continuity as Sullivan's 1980s miniseries. •
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000), a sequel to the 1985 television miniseries not based on the novels. Follows reprises Anne Shirley once again. •
Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008), a prequel to the 1985 television miniseries not based on the novels.
Hannah Endicott-Douglas plays young Anne, and
Barbara Hershey plays Anne as an adult. • ''
L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (2016), a 90-minute made-for-television adaptation of the book by Breakthrough Films & Television, adapted by Susan Coyne, directed by John Kent Harrison, and stars Ella Ballentine as Anne, Sara Botsford as Marilla Cuthbert, and Martin Sheen as Matthew Cuthbert. It was followed by Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars
and Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew'' (both in 2017). •
Anne with an E (2017–2019), a
Canadian joint CBC-Netflix
episodic drama that developed the subtext of trauma in the novel through original storylines. It was adapted by
Moira Walley-Beckett, and stars
Amybeth McNulty as
Anne Shirley,
Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert,
R. H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert, and
Lucas Jade Zumann as
Gilbert Blythe.
Web productions •
Green Gables Fables (2014–2016), an American-Canadian web series which adapts the story in the form of
vlogs and social media posts. It is a modern adaptation of
Anne of Green Gables and
Anne of the Island, featuring Mandy Harmon as Anne. •
Project Green Gables (2015–2018), an English-spoken Finnish web series which adapts and modernises
Anne of Green Gables,
Anne of Avonlea and
Anne of the Island. It presents the story in the form of vlogs and social media posts, with Laura Eklund Nhaga playing Anne.
Comics •
Akage no An (1984), a three volume
manga adaptation of the original novel by Keiko Sugimoto and published by
Kodansha •
Akage no An (1985) an adaptation by mangaka
Akemi Matsuzaki. •
Yumiko Igarashi adapted the first three novels across five volumes in 1997-1998 for
Kumon Publishing. •
Rainbow Valley (2003), a two volume manga adaptation of the seventh novel in the series by Chieko Hara for Kodansha. •
Anne of Green Gables (2013), a manga adaptation of the original novel was created by Mako Takami and published by
Shogakukan in Japan as part of their World Masterpiece Collection. •
Anne of Green Gables (2010-2014), a four-issue adaptation by CW Cooke and Giancarlo Malagutti was published by
TidalWave Productions. It was later collected in a
trade paperback in 2014. •
Anne Shirley (2025), a manga adaptation of the anime series by The Answer Studio illustrated by Akane Hoshikubo began serialization in
Enterbrain's ''
B's Log Comic'' online magazine on January 5, 2025. == References ==