Anne of Green Gables (1957 film)

Anne de Green Gables is a 1957 black-and-white TV film directed by Jacques Gauthier. It is based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, starring Mirielle Lachance as Anne Shirley.

Cast

 * Mirielle Lachance as Anne Shirley
 * Marthe Thiery as Marilla Cuthbert
 * Paul Guèvremont as Matthew Cuthbert
 * Germaine Giroux as Rachel Lynde
 * Lise Lasalle as Diana Barry
 * Hervé Brousseau as Gilbert Blythe
 * Clémence Desrochers as Jane Andrews
 * Roland Lepage as Mr. Phillips
 * Ernest Guimond as Stationmaster

Behind the scenes

 * Anne de Green Gables was aired live as part of the umbrella series Théâtre populaire on Radio-Canada, the French-language equivalent to CBC Folio.
 * According to Société Radio-Canada, no copies are housed in either the SRC archives or the National Archives of Canada, making it one of six lost adaptations.
 * French translation of Anne of Green Gables was not widely available at time of making this film. Parisian translation was published in 1964 and a French-Canadian translation in 1986. The script for this film was made by Jean Hamelin who translated original book and adapted it for the purposes of filming.