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Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film based on the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip created by Harold Gray.
The 1982 film also has a television film sequel Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995). The comic strip has also been adapted into a radio program that aired from 1924 to 1942, two pre-musical films of the same name ( 1932 and 1938 ), a compilation of the comics in a book series , and a direct-to-video film titled Little Orphan Annie's A Very ...
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 ...
Annie is a 1999 American musical-comedy-drama television film from The Wonderful World of Disney, adapted from the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray.
Rosanne Sorrentino was born on January 15, 1968, in Oceanside, Long Island, New York.She made her professional stage debut at aged 12 in the third national tour of Annie in 1980-81, playing the role of bossy orphan Pepper.
Gisondi was six when she was picked for the role of Molly in the 1982 film version of the musical Annie, which starred Aileen Quinn in the title role. She was nominated for "Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture" in the 1981–1982 Young Artist Awards, [4] and merited a mention in the 2002 edition of the St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, for her "sweet" performance.
He executive produced the first film version of Annie (1982) and reunited with Midler to choreograph For the Boys (1991). Layton directed the 1972 West End and 1973 Los Angeles productions of Scarlett, the musical stage adaptation of Gone with the Wind, and the 1985 world première of the Jule Styne musical Pieces of Eight in Edmonton.
At eight years old, she landed the role of the "swing orphan" [2] (understudy to all of the orphans except Molly and Annie) in the Broadway production of Annie. [3] After eight auditions over the course of a year, and up against over 8,000 other competitors, [1] Quinn received the title role in the 1982 movie Annie, directed by John Huston. [3]