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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.
"Little Girls" is a song from the musical Annie. [1] It was originally performed by Dorothy Loudon as the cruel orphanage keeper Miss Hannigan in the original cast of the show (1977). [2] Other performances include those by Carol Burnett in the 1982 film of Annie, Kathy Bates in the 1999 made-for-tv version and Taraji P. Henson in the 2021 live ...
Sia covered the song for the soundtrack for the 2014 film. [2] [3] The single charted in Australia, Belgium, UK and in Poland where it became an airplay hit—the song peaked at number 3 on the Polish Airplay Top 20 Chart and at number 2 on the Polish TV Airplay Chart.
Its lyrics are repeated as a personal motto by the character of Annie in Thomas Meehan's 1980 novelisation. It was the entry and concluding credits score for the 1982 film adaptation; an a capella version of the song was performed by Aileen Quinn as Annie during the scene at the White House where Annie and Warbucks meet Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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.
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. George Hearn also shaved his head when he played the role in the 1995 sequel Annie: A Royal Adventure!.
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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 ...