Anne of Green Gables 1919  N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: William Desmond Taylor
Cast: Mary Miles Minter, Paul Kelly, Marcia Harris, Frederick Burton, F.T. Chailee, Leila Romer, Lincoln Stedman, Hazel Sexton, Russell Hewitt, Albert Hackett, Laurie Lovelle, Carolyn Lee, Jack B. Hollis, George Stewart
This is a story of a young girl's years in an era of innocent days in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Anne (Mary Miles Minter) is an orphan who is adopted by her uncle (Frederick Burton) and his sister (Marcia Harris) in this amusing tale. Anne is involved in many adventures while growing up, but after she graduates, she goes to work as a school teacher. One day, Anne whips gossipy Mrs. Pie's (Leila Romer) misbehaving son Anthony (Russell Hewitt). Later that day, Anthony falls from a hay wagon and breaks his arm. He tells people that Anne broke his arm, but after the Reverend Figtree (Jack B. Hollis) reveals that he saw Anthony fall from the wagon, and Anne is exonerated. All ends well when Anne marries the man she loves, Gilbert Blythe (George Stewart).
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Birth of the Blues 1941 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Schertzinger
Cast: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Jack Teagarden, J. Carrol Naish, Cecil Kellaway, Warren Hymer, Horace McMahon
The music is great, but the story of New Orleans jazz is told from the white–not the African-American–perspective and loses its true meaning in the process.
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch 1942  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Murphy
Cast: Fay Bainter, Hugh Herbert, Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Britton, Carolyn Lee, Moroni Olsen, Billy Lee, John Archer, Clem Bevans, Ethel Griffies
Based on a 1901 novel by Alice Hegan, this is the story of Mrs. Wiggs (Fay Bainter) who is a mother of five children, and although they suffer adversities, she manages to instill positive messages in her brood.
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| 1. Anne of Green Gables (1919)
2. Birth of the Blues (1941)
3. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1942)
4. Virginia (1941)
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