Little Orphan Annie was one of the world's longest running comic strips, running daily from 1924 until 2010, as well as spinning off into musical theatre and movies. In its latter decades it had ...

Little Orphan Annie, the plucky little orphan girl, died today after an extended illness, just a few weeks shy of her 86th birthday. The official cause of death was listed as a broken heart after ...

“Orphan Annie ‘splains ‘bout new home” read the headline in a Chicago newspaper. Along with her scruffy sidekick, the comic strip character appeared not in the funny pages but in the real estate ...

During the 2012 revival, Finneran was succeeded first by Jane Lynch and later Faith Prince. During that period, Weymouth’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1982 film adaptation of Annie is one of the most iconic film adaptations of a Broadway musical to date. Led by Aileen Quinn as ...

Tribune Media Services has determined there will be no more newspaper tomorrows for Annie. In recent years, the comic appeared in less than 20 newspapers. That's unlike the 1940s, when the comic was ...

In 1924, a man named Harold Gray walked into the offices of Joseph Medill Patterson, the co-editor of the Chicago Tribune and the co-editor, publisher and founder of the New York Daily News. He ...

Who would Little Orphan Annie be without Sandy? Or how about Shirley? When Addison Fiedler auditioned for the role of an orphan in Cutting Edge Theater’s production of “Annie,” her dog Shirley ...