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

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As I noted a few years back, "Little Orphant Annie" was a popular 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley, who was an extremely popular poet known for his poetry for children.

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 ...

While its songs and story are classics in musical theatre history, its title character was originally inspired by a poem from 1885 written by James Whitcomb Riley, "Little Orphant Annie," which ...

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 ...

Little Orphant Annie was a 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley. The poem was the basis for a silent film, a song, and a storybook. Then Annie became a comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, by ...

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Before the decline of poetry reading after the 1950s (and the rise, within the diminished poetic realm, of a sneer at the old popular verse) such work as Riley’s “Little Orphant Annie” (1885) and “The ...

The newspaper comic strip character Little Orphan Annie has a special connection to the Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland area. Don't forget Harold Gray, the creator of "Little Orphan Annie" as ...

Audiences have been lapping up the sweet story of Little Orphan Annie since it opened on Broadway in 1977. ... Annie first appeared in an 1885 poem by a man named James Whitcomb Riley.

In 1924, cartoonist Harold Gray turned the poem into a comic strip, “Little Orphan Annie,” which followed the adventures of Annie, her dog, and her adoptive father Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks.