Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock ...

Little Orphan Annie's spirit was very impressive, ... As I noted a few years back, "Little Orphant Annie" was a popular 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley, ...

American writer and poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) is best known for writing in the unique Midwestern dialect and penning the poem “Little Orphant Annie” in 1885, which inspired the ...

The poem was the basis for a silent film, a song, and a storybook. Then Annie became a comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, by Harold Gray in 1924. The comic strip inspired a radio show and two film ...

But throughout Lombard, the home, one of the finest in town, is still called the “Little Orphan Annie House.” Annie turns 100 The museum exhibition, “ Leapin Lizards!