Aug. 5, 1924: The comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” debuts. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter ... Gray intended this plotline to be “a ‘thorough and penetrating analysis’ of teenage ...

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 remained a plainspoken girl -- a favorite expression ...

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 remained a plainspoken girl — a favorite expression ...

When “Little Orphan Annie” was replaced by “Captain Midnight” around 1940, Cole was essentially finished with radio. She married Irwin Cole, a businessman, and raised three daughters in ...

The journey to becoming a star even one 12 years old begins with a single step. For Alicia Morton, the orphan star of the new TV version of the musical “Annie,” that was a baby step. &#… ...

After a nation-wide search, 12-year-old Celina Smith was officially announced on Aug. 24 to be playing little orphan Annie in the NBC live musical Annie Live! opposite Harry Connick Jr.

It's just hair, but it sets us apart in a way no other hair color does. I was called Little Orphan Annie throughout my childhood — conveniently the movie came out in 1982, when I was 7.

Annie Through August 4 at the Porthouse Theatre, Blossom Music Center Campus, 3143 O'Neil Road, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223, 330-672-3884, kent.edu/porthouse Subscribe to Cleveland Scene newsletters.

In the minds of boys and girls in the 1930s, Shirley Bell Cole was a plucky little redhead engaged in thrilling adventures she punctuated with exclamations like “Leapin’ lizards!” In real ...