Anne of Green Gables

Anne Shirley, as the character whose name she took, is the red-headed orphan on her first school day on Prince Edward Island, with teacher (Murray Kinnell), friend Diana (Gertrude Messinger) and meeting Gilbert (Tom Brown), in Lucy Maude Montgomery's Anne Of Green Gables, 1934.

Anne Shirley, a movie veteran at 16, introduces herself by the name of her character, which she would use for the rest of her career (she retired in 1944), met by her prospective adopted father (O.P. Heggie), in the 1934 version of the L.M. Montgomery novel, Anne Of Green Gables.