A vintage “Little Orphan Annie” comic strip from 1926 ... But attempts to reproduce paintings resulted in murky images. Comics, on the other hand, proved terrific on newsprint.

From a poem to a play to a number of high-profile films, Annie has been a very popular orphan. Columbia Pictures released ... a daily newspaper comic strip called Little Orphan Annie.

In the summer of 1924, American comics readers met a new kind of heroine: a 10-year-old girl with curly red hair, a ...

The story of Annie first originated in 1924 with the comic strip Little Orphan Annie ... Finney | The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The creation of an Annie movie was well in the ...

Gray penned “Little Orphan Annie” while living in Lombard, first on Stewart Avenue and then in that grand Main Street home. His comic strip ... TV will recognize the images of decoder pins ...

Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque.

She got the part, adapted from Harold Gray’s popular comic strip ... radio station WDCB that rebroadcast vintage programs. “Little Orphan Annie,” he said, was particularly exciting.

Based on the popular comic ... Musical, Annie Jr. features everyone's favorite little redhead in her very first adventure. With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms ...

respects its pop culture origins. This is an “Annie” that knows that “Little Orphan Annie” was a comic strip first, and that its young heroine could be hotheaded and childlike but also ...