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The other orphans in the room -- Kate, the next to littlest,...
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Based on Little Orphan Annie, the popular comic strip by...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Dive headfirst into the vast cinematic universe of Annie and its vibrant cast of characters. This tapestry of personalities, energizing the celluloid world with their dynamism, brings the story to life.
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Comic strip universe
Little is known or revealed about Annie's origins in the comic strips. Kenneth Barker's article in Nemo, the Classic Comics Library #8 mentions that Annie had been in Miss Asthma's orphanage since infancy. Annie describes the first thing that she remembered: "Bein' in th' 'Home' and how mean Miss Asthma was. I guess I must have been there, right from th' time I was born, almost." There were in fact family records for Annie and her parents, but these were lost when the orphanage was razed on N...
Novelization by Thomas Meehan
The novelization of the Broadway musical establishes that Annie was born to David and Margaret Bennett, two struggling and impoverished painters from Iowa who moved to New York in 1921 to study art at Cooper Union. A young couple, the Bennetts knew no immediate relatives in New York or back in Iowa, and when Margaret fell ill with the Spanish Flu, her husband David left two-month old Annie at the orphanage in a last-ditch effort, leaving with the baby a note assuring Annie that they will be b...
Theatrical rendition
Based off of the Thomas Meehan novel, this is a musical later produced into two movies. Annie is abandoned in a New York City orphanage where she dreams of her parents returning to reclaim her. In 1933 she escapes her abusive orphan mistress Miss Hannigan and finds a dog Sandy, but is returned to the orphanage. Right after, she is invited by Grace Farrell to spend Christmas, (The 4th of July in the the 1982 film), with the billionaire Oliver Warbucks. After at first being repulsed by Annie, s...
Annie has curly red hair,(straight at first in the original musical) fair skin, and green eyes. Her clothing is a red dress with white cuffs, collar and sash, white socks and black Mary Jane shoes in the 1982 film. Annie almost always maintains a good, positive attitude, and is the ideal girl. She has a fairly good relationship with the rest of the...
All three original debuting actresses' names started with an "A", just like the character's: Andrea McArdle, who first played the role on Broadway; Aileen Quinn, who played the role in the 1982 Col...The first person to actually play her that doesn't start with an A is Lea Salonga. She has played her in the Broadway. If you want to see her sing. You can check three videos singing Tomorrow, It's...Although in the original Broadway show and 1999 film, Annie's hair starts out straight and auburn, in the 1982 film, her hair is curly and red the whole time like Annie's appearance in the original...The 2014 rendition of Annie is of African-American ancestry, a departure from the classic character who is hinted to be of Irish descent.Annie is a musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and a book by Thomas Meehan. It is based on the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray (which in turn was inspired from the poem Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley).
The characters in Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie and characters made up by Thomas Meehan
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Annie Character Breakdown. ANNIE, Mezzo-Soprano Belter, Female, to play 11 years old: A tough yet charming streetwise orphan. Annie is independent, hopeful, and full of life; she acts. as a leader/mother figure to the other orphans and yearns for parents of her own. Looking for a.
