Anne of Green Gables and L.M.
Montgomery are sometimes mentioned in the most interesting places.
I love learning that people are fans of the books. Have you ever been surprised
to see
Anne of Green Gables turn up somewhere? Have you ever learned someone famous
was/is an Anne of Green Gables fan? E-mail me
and let me know, and I'll add the information to the list below. Thanks to
everyone who's sent in a sighting!
February 2010 - Real Simple magazine lists The Blue
Castle as a 'best love story'
In the February 2010 issue of Real Simple magazine, L.M. Montgomery's
The Blue Castle is listed under the question "What is your favorite love
story?" on page 25.
-Submitted by Christy
September 2009 - Actress Jennifer Garner mentions that her Mom's
advice often came from Anne
of Green Gables
"My mom is full of good advice. She always says, 'Happiness is your
own responsibility.' And she always says, 'Weeping may last through the night,
but joy comes in
the morning.' That's what she would tell us after every breakup or anytime
you did poorly on something. Most of our little bites of advice as kids came
from either Little House on the Prairie or Anne of Green Gables."
- Jennifer
Garner: 'Alias' Prepared Me For Motherhood by Erin Hill, Parade Magazine,
September 28,
2009
August 5, 2009 - Anne of Green Gables mentioned in Twilight by Stephanie
Meyer. Author Stephenie Meyer of the popular Twilight saga
mentions
Anne of Green Gables in her story. In Eclipse, Bella says
that she pictures herself married to Edward in an Anne of Green Gables setting
(page 277). Later, Bella mentions Anne of Green Gables again
when describing her actual wedding dress (page 614).
-Submitted by Sarah Elizabeth
July 31, 2009 - Christina Hendricks of 'Mad Men' credits her
red hair to 'Anne of Green Gables'
In an article, titled 'Mad
Men' star thanks 'Green Gables' by Bill Harris of the Sun Media, Christina Hendricks thanks
Megan Follows and Anne of Green Gables for her red hair.
"'Megan, if you hear this, thank you for my red hair,' Hendricks
told Sun Media during a reception with the cast of Mad Men at the Television
Critics Association Tour. Hendricks, an American actress who plays Joan Holloway
in AMC's Emmy Award-winning Mad Men, is a natural blond. But Hendricks began
dying her hair red when
she was very young because she became mesmerized by Anne of Green Gables. 'It
was the Canadian series with Megan Follows, absolutely her, I love her,' said
Hendricks, 34. 'I can't remember how I found it. I don't remember if it
was a teacher who played it for us, or if it was on PBS and so my parents let
me watch
it. But I became very fascinated and read almost all the books. I have
the box set at home.'
Follows now lives in the Los Angeles area and has appeared
in episodes of various high-profile TV series in recent years, from Brothers
and Sisters
to Lie to Me. 'I have never come across her, but I IMDb'd her (looked
up Follows' page on the International Movie Database website) just a couple
of weeks
ago, because I was wondering what she was up to,' Hendricks said. 'So
I looked her up, and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I've probably seen her in a
bunch of these things.' I probably just didn't realize it was her
because she wasn't dressed in early 1900s school clothes.' True, Follows
has not kept up the Anne of Green Gables look in her adult years.' I
don't know why anyone wouldn't, it's gorgeous, she looked beautiful and she
was wonderful in it,' Hendricks said. 'I'm a big fan of
hers.'
To be fair, Hendricks -- who lived in Toronto for a year while she
was working on the UPN series Kevin Hill -- admitted when she was a kid there
were some
other redheads in her life, so to speak. 'Ann-Margret, absolutely,' Hendricks
said. 'And
Lucille Ball. Ginger on Gilligan's Island. But I was around 10 years
old when I first started watching Anne of Green Gables. I didn't (dye my
hair red) permanently at that age, but that's
where it started. Anne of Green Gables was someone I was passionate about
when I was little.' Sounds like Hendricks still is.
Mad Men returns for its
third season on Sunday, Aug. 16. Most Canadian cable and satellite providers
carry AMC, so enthusiasts will be able to keep up
with Mad Men there, even though at this point no Canadian
network has purchased the new season. The series -- which won the Emmy Award
for best drama last year -- is set in the early 1960s and centres on a New
York ad firm called Sterling Cooper.
Hendricks' character is the head of the secretarial pool, and as the third
season begins, she faces new challenges to her authority, since Sterling
Cooper has been purchased by a British firm.
So when Hendricks first was hired
to play Joan, was there ever any talk about what hair colour she should have? "No, I was red, they hired me
as a redhead, and I'm still a redhead," Hendricks
said. Amazingly, Megan Follows can take some credit for that."
July 19, 2009 - Elizabeth Vargas, an anchor and correspondant
for ABC News, is a fan of Anne of Green Gables. In an
interview with Sheknows.com, Elizabeth Vargas mentions books that deeply
moved her as a child and included the Anne of Green
Gables series on her list.
"SheKnows: What were some of those books that were so wonderful for you
that when they ended you cried?
Elizabeth Vargas: I remember, a little bit older, reading Winds of War and War and Remembrance and I read them back to back.
SheKnows: Oh, yeah.
Elizabeth Vargas: I was so deeply moved by them. I loved the Anne
of Green Gables series. That was just as a girl, I loved those
books. It’s a
trilogy. When I read the last one, I was devastated that were no more coming
up. The earliest book I remember actually was when I was in Kindergarten,
our teacher read us Charlotte’s Web. She read one chapter every day.
I always left thinking, ‘no, one more chapter!’ There are all
sorts of things that you can do to build a love of reading for your kids.
But, there’s nothing like having great books around and adults to read
them to you."
(I hope Elizabeth Vargas knows will learn that there are eight Anne of
Green Gables novels.)
May 26, 2009 - L.M. Montgomery is mentioned
in the novel Johnny Kellock Died Today by Hadley Dyer. I
read the novel in July 2008. I found the quote a bit disparaging:
"How could there be any stories left in the world to tell? L.M.
Montgomery was always writing about orphans who talked too much and didn't
have a lot
of
friends,
and she was probably just writing about herself and no one ever called her
out for it. Imagine all those orphans on an island as big as your pinky and
never running into each other. The Island of Chatterboxes. But L.M.
Montgomery every story seem like it was brand new. It was a good trick." (page
120-121)
January 30, 2009 - Anna Torv, who stars as Olivia on Fox's "Fringe," mentions Anne of Green Gables in
an interview about her show. - 'Fringe'
now a mainstream hit by Frazier Moore, AP Television Writer, Delaware
Online, January 29, 2009
"Not
quite so much fun: sharing a scene in Dr. Bishop’s lab with an all-too-realistic-looking
body part or gooey mutant organism. “Fringe” knows fringe science
should have an ick factor. 'It really can be quite revolting. But people
get a thrill out of it, you know,' says Torv. She pauses for a throaty
chuckle. 'I
was always more into 'Anne of Green Gables.'"
June 29, 2008 - Abagail Bresnin, star of "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Kit
Kittredge: An American Girl" lists Anne of Green Gables among her favorite
books. - An
All-American Girl by Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel Movie Critic
January 23, 2007 - L.M. Montgomery quoted at the end of CBS's "Criminal Minds" Episode
313 "Limelight"
"For
we pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although
ambitions
are well
worth having,
they
are
not
to
be cheaply
won,
but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement." - Anne of Green Gables by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
-Submitted by PJM
March 29, 2006- Annetoon in Jordan!
My fiance took these photos of Kevin Sullivan's Annetoon on
television in Jordan earlier this month. It was dubbed in Arabic. More evidence
that
Anne is everywhere.
November 30, 2005
Anne mentioned in a review of TV movie "Felicity: An
American Girl Adventure"
"There's none of the edge that made Anne
of Green Gables such
a superb TV adaptation, and little of the artistry that did the same for
the even more saccharine story of "Pollyanna" recently on the small
screen." Read more here.
Anne mentioned in an article on Cape Ann in Massachusetts.
"There are two capes in Massachusetts: the world-renowned cape named
for a fish - a fish! - and the feisty, beautiful cape named for a queen.
(Not,
as many people believe, for Anne of Green Gables - that one has an ’e.’)"
There's an Anne-related question in the Isaac
Asimov's Super Quiz
Freshman Level: 5. Which Canadian province provides the setting
for Anne of Green Gables'?
September 3, 2005 - Encountered an Anne U-Haul.
Parked right outside my
apartment was this Anne of Green Gables U-Haul. The photo
was taken from my doorstep. I was trying to
figure
out what
that
was a sign for, since I was already on the Anne of Green
Gables Message Boards and
already planning to work on my site today. Like I needed an Anne Shirley
reminder!
July 20, 2005 - INFP
Personality Profile mentions Anne of Green Gables.
"INFP children often exhibit this in a 'Calvin and Hobbes' fashion, switching
from reality to fantasy and back again. With few exceptions, it is the NF
child who readily develops imaginary playmates (as with Anne of Green
Gables's "bookcase
girlfriend"--her own reflection) and whose stuffed animals come to
life like the Velveteen Rabbit and the Skin Horse"
-Submitted by Elizabeth
March 5, 2005 - Columnist John Patterson compares
Laura Linney's cheekbones to Anne's in The
Guardian.
"Such a nice girl, that Laura Linney, such a good girl. Or so you think.
And why would we ever think otherwise, given her cascading Goldilocks, the
unnervingly
perfect symmetry of her face, bisected by a bright wide smile that forces
upwards and outwards those apple-shiny Anne Of Green Gables cheekbones?"
June 21, 2004 - The Scottish band Idlewild takes
their name from Anne
of Green Gables.
"If any further evidence of Idlewild's
obsession with literature is needed, look no further than Canada. Their band
name is
taken from the book of one of Canada's most celebrated authors. In L.M.
Montgomery's novel 'Anne of Green Gables', lead heroine Anne Shirley
speaks of a 'romantic spot' she's discovered on Prince Edward Island: 'We
call it Idlewild.
Isn't that a poetical name?'" - Soulshine
February 2003 - Actress Jennifer Garner mentioned reading Anne
of Green Gables in In
Site magazine,
while promoting "Elektra."
QUESTION: Were you a comic-book fan?
JENNIFER GARNER: I grew up with three girls.
So we were much more into Anne of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie than
we were comic books. Having said that,
I wish that I had read Elektra's storyline when I was younger because I
think that it is pretty empowering, this woman who is every man's equal,
who can
take care of herself and who's as smart as any man and stronger than most.
I have read all of Elektra's saga now, and most of Daredevil, but out of
order. So I'm very confused. So, don't ask me anything.
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