Remembering Jonathan Crombie’s Gilbert Blythe

Posted on April 19, 2015April 19, 2015 by Valorie Grace Hallinan

Did you ever see the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s 1985 TV mini-series of Anne of Green Gables? One of the finer book-to-television adaptations. Remembering Jonathan Crombie’s Gilbert Blythe. Crombie passed away yesterday.

Illustration by Troy Howell, in the Children’s Classics Division/dilithium Press Ltd edition of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1988.

The epigraph: “The good stars met in your horoscope, Made you of spirit and fire and dew.” Browning

Published by Valorie Grace Hallinan

Writer, blogger at Books Can Save a Life, about the healing and enriching power of books. At work on a memoir about growing up with a mother who is mentally ill. A former book editor and medical librarian, my work has been published in Great Lakes Review, Library Journal, and other publications. View all posts by Valorie Grace Hallinan

5 thoughts on “Remembering Jonathan Crombie’s Gilbert Blythe”

Giuseppe April 26, 20152:43 am Reply

ciao da Carini Giuseppe,Vita Sansone

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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:01:28 +0000 To: pinosansone@live.it
sylviemarieheroux April 19, 20154:19 pm Reply

OMG, so sad. I totally fell in love with Jonathan Crombie when he played Gilbert Blythe. Anne of Green Gables is one of my favorite TV series ever…
1. Valorie Grace Hallinan April 19, 20155:10 pm Reply
  
  I know, I’ve been sad all afternoon about this.
Valorie Grace Hallinan April 19, 20154:13 pm Reply

I had no idea there was a second sequel! I will have to catch up and watch that one, when Gilbert goes off to fight in WWI. I don’t know if you saw it – was it good?
Naomi April 19, 20153:45 pm Reply

So sad. Like so many others, I lived and breathed that movie when it came out. I was just the right age for it – 11. He is still what I think of when I think of Gilbert. Thanks for this.