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Little Orphan Annie is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John S. Robertson, and written by Wanda Tuchock and Tom McNamara. It is based on the comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The film stars Mitzi Green, Buster Phelps, May Robson, Matt Moore, and Edgar Kennedy. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by RKO Pictures.
In the 1932 version, Warbucks was portrayed by Edgar Kennedy, however the 1938 version omits the character. In the 1970s, Warbucks became more widely known via the 1977 musical Annie on Broadway. These were followed in 1982 by the musical film Annie , in which Daddy Warbucks was portrayed by Albert Finney , who had shaved his head to play the role.
In 1995, Little Orphan Annie was one of 20 American comic strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. [citation needed] Rapper Jay-Z has referenced Little Orphan Annie in at least two of his songs, [31] [32] as well as sampling "It's the Hard Knock Life" for "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" (1998). [33]
The original comic strip created by Harold Gray, Little Orphan Annie, The comic strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley. Its most notable adaptation is the 1977 musical Annie that won 7 Tony Awards which has been adapted four times on screen for both the big screen and television ( 1982 , 1999 ...
A year after the 1982 film, twelve year old Annie Warbucks (Ashley Johnson), Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks (George Hearn), their dog Sandy, Annie's new friend Hannah (Emily Ann Lloyd), an eccentric scientist (Ian McDiarmid), and Annie's old friend Molly (Camilla Belle) (who is still an orphan but gets adopted by the Webb family in the end), travel to Britain, where Warbucks is to be knighted by His ...
Harry Connick Jr. has boarded the cast of NBC’s Annie Live! as Sir Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks, the larger-than-life billionaire who opens his heart and home to the titular little orphan. The ...
Seeing Annie, Warbucks wonders why Grace brought a girl because an orphan is supposed to be a boy. Still, Annie wins the man over. While Warbucks was going to spend the evening catching up on work, he takes Annie and Grace to see a Broadway show. Miss Hannigan gets a visit from her criminal brother Rooster and his latest girlfriend Lily St ...
Martin Charnin first approached Thomas Meehan to write the book of a musical about Little Orphan Annie, in 1972. Meehan researched, by rereading prints of the comic strip, but he was unable to find any satisfactory material for a musical, other than the characters of Annie, Oliver Warbucks, and Sandy, so, he decided to write his own story.