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Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services.The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" by James Whitcomb Riley, and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News.
The Complete Little Orphan Annie is a hardcover book series collecting the complete output of the American comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, written and drawn by Harold Gray from the strip's debut in 1924 to Gray's death in 1968. [1]
"Annie" isn't just for the kids. This holiday season is filled with family movies, but the new remake of "Annie," which hits theaters December 19, has a decidedly grown up feel.
Annie also finds out her social security number and makes a copy of it so she can do research on her family background. The film is also set in present-day rather than in the 1930s. In addition, many characters' names and stories are changed as well. Oliver Warbucks is changed to Will Stacks, a wealthy and germaphobic politician. Stacks finds ...
It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories. This category is for fictional orphans , i.e. characters who have had 1 or both parent(s) and/or legal guardian(s) die or otherwise abandoning them permanently, during the character's childhood.
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.
Harold Gray was born in Kankakee, Illinois on January 20, 1894, [1] to Estella Mary (née Rosencrans) and Ira Lincoln Gray, a farmer. [2] Both parents died before he finished high school in 1912 in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the family had moved.