Anne of Green Gables (1919)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Anne of Green Gables |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1919 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | William Desmond Taylor |
| script | Frances Marion |
| camera | Hal Young |
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Anne of Green Gables is an American film directed by William Desmond Taylor from 1919. The silent film , which is loosely based on the Anne novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery , is now counted among the lost films .
action
Elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert adopt a red-haired girl named Anne Shirley. Anne lives with Matthew and Marilla on their farm Green Gables. Anne's lively and unruly nature doesn't make her popular everywhere. Mrs. Pie and her daughter Josie especially hate Anne. After a few adventures in childhood and school, Anne successfully completed her studies and was employed as a teacher at the village school. One of her students, Anthony Pie, claims that Anne beat him badly and broke his arm. The Reverend Figtree can calm the angry village community - he saw Anthony Pie fall from a hay cart and break his arm. At the end of the film, Anne marries her boyfriend Gilbert Blythe.
background
The novels Anne on Green Gables , Anne in Avonlea and Anne in Kingsport served as a template for the film . The author Lucy Maud Montgomery was not satisfied with the implementation of her novels. She found Anne in Taylor's film too "sugar-sweet" and was annoyed about the location of New England, the use of an American flag and explained that if she hadn't known that the film was based on her novels, she would not have recognized it.
The film was shot from outside in Dedham , Massachusetts from August to October 1919 , and was released just a few weeks later on November 23.
At the time of filming, 17-year-old Mary Miles Minter was said to be having an affair with director Taylor, 30 years his senior. The affair hit the headlines after Taylor's murder in 1922 when both Minter and her mother were suspected. Minter denied the affair after Taylor was murdered. Taylor's murder was never solved.
criticism
The New York Times complained that Minter would do little more than look cute. Julian Johnson wrote in Photoplay in February 1920 that Taylor's direction was appropriate without being original. The best acting performance would have been Marcia Harris as Marilla.
Web links
- Anne of Green Gables in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anne of Green Gables ( Memento of May 11, 2008 on the Internet Archive ) on the LM Montgomery Resource Page
- Anne of Green Gables on the homepage of the American Film Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of lost films on silentera.com, accessed on 18 November of 2009.
- ^ Clarence Karr: Authors and Audiences. Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century. McGills-Queen's University Press, Montreal et al. 2001, ISBN 0-7735-2076-7 , GoogleBooks , accessed November 18, 2009.
- ^ Faye Hammill: Literary culture and female authorship in Canada 1760-2000 (= Cross Cultures. Vol. 63). Rodopi, Amsterdam et al. 2003, ISBN 90-420-0915-2 , GoogleBooks , accessed November 18, 2009.
- ^ William Desmond Taylor on classichollywoodbios.com, accessed November 21, 2009.
- ↑ Urs Jenny : Millions, Murder, Misery . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1987 ( online ).
- ↑ criticism on movies.nytimes.com, accessed on 19 November of 2009.
- ↑ Copy of Johnson's criticism ( memento of the original from December 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on silent-movies.com, accessed November 19, 2009.
