Lunchboxes, dolls and other “Annie” memorabilia are on display in “Leapin Lizards! A Hundred Years of Little Orphan Annie,” an exhibition presented by the Lombard Historical Society.

Orphan Annie first appeared in comic books in 1924. She has since been on the radio, in Broadway musicals and in the movies. During the past seven decades, there have been many books, dolls, toys a… ...

Annie quickly moved beyond newsprint and radio, blossoming into a multimedia star: Comic books, movies, a doll and board game in her name, celebrity endorser (Ovaltine, anyone?) with her own ...

Annie quickly moved beyond newsprint and radio, blossoming into a multimedia star: Comic books, movies, a doll and board game in her name, celebrity endorser (Ovaltine, anyone?) with her own ...

As a young girl in the 1990s, I was surrounded by orphan stories: our family’s creaky VHS tape of the 1982 version of “Annie”; the well-thumbed library paperbacks of “The Boxcar Children ...