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“Annie doesn’t need charity—just give her an even break and she’ll do the rest.” Nowadays, the Little Orphan Annie comics ...
From a poem to a play to a number of high-profile films, 'Annie' has been a very popular orphan. From a poem to a play to a number of high-profile films, Annie has been a very popular orphan.
Today marks the end of the line for the once wildly-popular comic strip featuring Little Orphan Annie. Richard Schlesinger has her story: A little orphan and her dog getting into scrapes ...
In the musical and the movies, Little Orphan Annie triumphs over adversity — her own personal tragedy and Miss Hannigan’s greedy schemes — in one relatively quick stroke. But when she got ...
Annie did undergo a modest makeover over the years: The "Little Orphan" was dropped in the late '70s. And she finally traded her red dress with the white collar for sneakers and jeans. But Annie ...
In one of the more famous Little Orphan Annie stories, Punjab has been referred to as ‘mysterious’ and ‘Punjab the Wizard’. It is reported that Punjab’s first look appeared in this ...
Little Orphan Annie's voice is no more. Shirley Bell Cole, who voiced Annie in the popular radio show of the 1930s, died last month. She was 89. This music is from an earlier time. It's the song ...
CHICAGO – CHICAGO (AP) — The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years. Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication ...
Little Orphan Annie, the plucky little orphan girl, died today after an extended illness, just a few weeks shy of her 86th birthday. The official cause of death was listed as a broken heart after ...