Sony will release “Annie,” a new movie based on the iconic play, on Christmas Day of 2014, the studio announced on Wednesday. Quvenzhane Wallis, fresh off an Oscar nomination for her ...

WASHINGTON — Christmas is almost upon us, bringing TV airings of Ralphie using his "Little Orphan Annie" decoder ring to crack an anti-climactic code in "A Christmas Story" (1983). It' ...

The famously redheaded orphan is played this time by African-American actress Quvenzhané Wallis. "The original Annie had a red Afro," points out Indiana University scholar Terri Francis.

Little Orphan Annie will come to life this weekend in the stage musical “Annie Jr.” performed by the Hutchinson Middle School. The show will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p ...

The comic strip Little Orphan Annie was launched during the Great Depression. A remake of the 1987 movie arrives when the income gap between rich and poor is the highest it's been since the 1930s.

Annie always will be and always should be a ginger! #notracist just traditional” — Sara Campos (@SaraCamposXD) March 6, 2014 “They’re redoing the Annie movie and making the little girl black.

Crawford assumed the role of Annie from 2012-2013, during a revival of the show that ran until 2014. Mid-2013, she began alternating with Taylor Richardson and Sadie Sink. The show closed in ...

The words and the tune are familiar, but the decidedly hip-hop twist belies a completely different story: that of the orphan Annie, who, in 2014, just happens to be black.

Learn about Annie - 2014 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ... Jay Z famously had a Top Ten hit with a rap version of the show's famous orphan theme It's A Hard Knock Life called Hard Knock Life ...

Marcellus High School students rehearse a dance number for the school's upcoming production of "Annie." Pictured are (from left) Andrew Murphy, Ana Clark, Kristin Goodwin, Josh Finch, Dave Manke ...

Nowadays, the Little Orphan Annie comics that Harold Gray drew from Aug. 5, 1924, through his death in 1968 are less ...