Word: merilla
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...unravolling identities, critics should not be lenient nor can they be held responsible. Especially is this true when the production is adapted from your sister's childhood favorite, "Anne of Green Gables." Is Anne Shirley, Anne Shirley, or is she Shirley Temple, or Temple Bailey, or ditto? Is Merilla, Merilla, or is she Murilla, or Marilla, Marella, Merella, ditto? Is Gilbert Blythe, Gilbert Blythe, or Blithe, or Bliyth or ditto...
...Brown as Gilbert Blythe (porhaps it is Blithe, Blith, or Blyth) leaves only a little to be desired. O. P. Heggie as the sympathetic man of the family, creates a genuinely whimsical expression rivalled only by Will Rogers. Holen Westley as the Puritanical and sometimes tyrannical stepmother, Merilla (Murilla?, Merella?, Murella?) can compare favorably with the most tyrannical of the tyrannical. Only Tom Brown is left to jar a gently amusing and quietly entertaining movie. Tom Brown is as Tom Brown has always been--terribly serious, terribly earnest, gaping, apparently stupified by what goes on, and all in all, completely...
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