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Is This the Secret Garden Where........

posted 19 years ago by pillowtalk
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Is this Secret Garden version where Dickon and Mary are married in the end?

[–] davey_boy 18 years ago

No, not at all.
People are often at their best when things are at their worst.

[–] pillowtalk 18 years ago

Davey boy-
"People are often at their best when things are at their worst."
What is that from?
-lingo590

Jan:Would you please get off this line! -Pillow Talk

[–] davey_boy 18 years ago

Hi lingo590
It is a quote spoken by Jeff Bridges in the final scene of "Starman" just before he gets taken up to the mother space ship.
People are often at their best when things are at their worst.

[–] pillowtalk 18 years ago

Thanks!
Jan:Would you please get off this line! -Pillow Talk

[–] coachdemi919-1 18 years ago

That is the Hallmark Hall of Fame version from 1987

[–] pillowtalk 18 years ago

Awesome! Thank you sooo much!
Jan:Would you please get off this line! -Pillow Talk

[–] rh4evah 18 years ago

Actually, it's Mary and Colin who marry, Dickon died in a war.

[–] sleepdeprived 18 years ago

Mary and Colin--the cousins, right?

But is there anyone who's really good? Maybe goodness is just make-believe.

[–] samsaidx 17 years ago

Lol, yes, the cousins..

[–] TRACESOFTRACY 17 years ago

Actually, in the hallmark version, Mary and and Colin's mothers were friends, not cousins, so it made Mary and Colin not related.

[–] madder-den-a-hatter 17 years ago

thats the 1987 version

Maybe it was ment to be :)

[–] sharea17 15 years ago

Is this the one where the parents really die of cholera instead of an earthquake?

[–] vlsimon 14 years ago

yes. I just watched it on TCM and it was terrific.

[–] Deidra 9 years ago

In the book, it is cholera which is the tragedy that sets everything in motion; it can kill rapidly and is highly contagious.

They may have changed things for later versions - fire, etc. because they thought it made for more dramatic visuals and modern audiences are less and less familiar with the diseases that previous generations knew and feared.