Cover of Cupples & Leon strip collection (1933)

Little Orphan Annie is a full page (later half page or tab) American comic strip, created by Harold Gray (1894-1968), that first appeared on August 5, 1924. The title, suggested by an editor at the Chicago Tribune Syndicate, was inspired by James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem "Little Orphant Annie" which begins: Image File history File linksMetadata Loauncledan. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Loauncledan. ... Full page is a format of newspaper comic strips. ... Half page is a Sunday strip format for newspaper comic strips. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Sunday strip. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Harold Gray (January 20, 1894- September 6, 1968) was and American newspaper artist and cartoonist. ... August 5 is the 217th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (218th in leap years), with 148 days remaining. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Honorary statue of James Whitcomb Riley on courthouse lawn in Greenfield, Indiana James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916), American writer and poet called the Hoosier poet and Americas Childrens Poet made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal...

Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay,

An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away,

An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep,

An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep;

An' all us other childern, when the supper-things is done,

We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun

A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about,

An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you

Ef you

Don't

Watch

Out!

It was eight years after Riley's death when Gray created his comic strip Little Orphan Otto (1924), and the Chicago Tribune's Joseph Patterson changed the title to Little Orphan Annie. Three years later, King Features came up with their own waif, Little Annie Rooney. King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ... Little Annie Rooney was a Comic strip about a young orphaned girl, with a dog as a companion. ...

Comic strips

In Gray's storyline, Annie is an orphan whose only friends are her doll Emily Marie and later her dog Sandy. She escapes from a Dickensian orphanage and makes her way in the world by pluck, hard work and a cheery disposition. In 1925, she is taken in by "Daddy" Oliver Warbucks, an idealized capitalist who in some ways resembles Jiggs, of Bringing Up Father. Daddy Warbucks earned his money by hard work, has a shrewish wife and hates snobbery. He is tough but fair and pays his workers well. His servants love him. Other major characters, introduced later in the strip, include Warbucks right-hand men, Punjab, an eight-foot native of India, introduced in 1935, and the Asp, an inscrutably generalized East Asian, who first appeared in 1937. Bringing Up Father was a comic strip created by George McManus that ran from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000. ... East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. ...

At first, the comic was humorous, aimed at children. Through the 1920s, the stories became more adventurous. By 1931, the strip was being read by many adults, and became more political. Story lines included a story where Daddy Warbucks lost all his money, then lost his eyesight, then was thrown into prison. Annie had to fare for herself in a cold, cruel world.

Warbucks was able to bounce back, but subsequent stories would devise various ways to separate Annie from Daddy, leaving her to fend for herself. Then Annie would hit the road, until Daddy showed up again. Often she was taken in by a poor but honest family. The strip (and Gray, in interviews) glorified the American business ethic of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. His hatred of labor unions was dramatized in the 1935 story "Eonite". Other targets were the New Deal and communism. Corrupt businessmen often appeared as villains. A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers... The New Deal was the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs initiated between 1933–1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ...

Annie's main physical characteristics are a mop of red, curly hair and vacant circles for eyes. She is always accompanied by her dog, Sandy. Her catch phrase is "Leapin' lizards!" Annie attributed her lasting youthfulness to the fact that she was born on Leap Day, February 29, and so only aged one year in appearance for every four years that passed. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ... February 29th, or bissextile day, is the 60th day of a leap year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 306 days remaining. ...

During World War II, Little Orphan Annie launched the "Junior Commando" movement, mobilizing thousands to collect tons of newspapers, scrap metal and other materials for the war effort. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

After Gray's death in 1968, the strip continued under other cartoonists but was replaced with reruns in 1974. Following the success of the Broadway musical Annie, the strip was resurrected in 1979 as Annie by Leonard Starr, creator of Mary Perkins, On Stage, and the only one besides Gray to achieve notable success with the strip. ^[1] Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Annie is a musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie. ... Leonard Starr who was born October 28, 1925 was an advertising artist and cartoonist. ... Mary Perkins, On Stage was a very popular comic strip during the 1960s. ...

In 1995, Little Orphan Annie was one of 20 American comic strips included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative U.S. postage stamps. The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service in 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip. ...

Upon Starr's retirement in 2000, he was succeeded by New York Daily News writer Jay Maeder and artist Andrew Pepoy, beginning Monday, June 5, 2000. Pepoy was eventually succeeded by Alan Kupperberg (2002-2004) and Ted Slampyak (2004-). Daily News is the name of two major newspapers in the United States: Los Angeles Daily News New York Daily News This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Andrew Pepoy (born 1969 in Holland, Michigan) is an American comic book artist who began working as a professionally while still in college at Loyola University Chicago. ... June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ted Slampyak External links Official site Categories: | | | | ...

Radio

In this posed publicity photo for radio's Little Orphan Annie, Annie (Shirley Bell) embraces her dog Sandy.

Beginning when she was ten years old, Chicago actress Shirley Bell Cole, now 87, starred on radio's Little Orphan Annie from 1930 to 1940. In 2007, she continues to make personal appearances talking about her experiences on the radio show. Her memoir, Acting Her Age: My Ten Years as a Ten-Year-Old (2005), won two awards at the Chicago Book Clinic's Book and Media Show. Image File history File links Orphanannie2. ... Image File history File links Orphanannie2. ...

From 1931 to 1933, the radio show had two different casts, one in Chicago and one in San Francisco, performing the same scripts daily. Floy Hughes portrayed Annie in the West Coast version.

Little Orphan Annie began in 1930 in Chicago on WGN, and on April 6, 1931, with Ovaltine as the sponsor, the 15-minute series graduated to the Blue Network. Airing six days a week at 5:45pm, it was the first late-afternoon children's radio serial, and as such, it created a sensation with its youthful listeners, continuing until October 30, 1936. During a contract dispute with Shirley Bell, Annie was briefly played by Bobbe Dean in 1934-35. April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American radio and television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The show opened with a theme song that took on a popularity of its own with oft-quoted lyrics:

Who's that little chatter box?

The one with pretty auburn locks?

Whom do you see?

It's Little Orphan Annie.

She and Sandy make a pair,

They never seem to have a care!

Cute little she,

It's Little Orphan Annie.

Bright eyes cheeks a healthy glow,

There's a store of healthiness handy.

Mite-size, always on the go,

If you want to know - "Arf", goes Sandy.

Always wears a sunny smile,

Now, wouldn't it be worth a while,

If you could be,

Like Little Orphan Annie?

The song led to the catch phrase, "Arf goes Sandy," sometimes given as "Arf says Sandy." With Ovaltine still on board as sponsor, NBC carried the show from November 2, 1936 until January 19, 1940, and concurrent broadcasts were also carried at 5:30pm on Mutual in 1937-38. November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Sponsored by Quaker Puffed Wheat Sparkies, the show moved to Mutual for its final run from January 22, 1940 to April 26, 1942. Janice Gilbert portrayed Annie from 1940 to 1942, January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Despite the program's popularity, few episodes have survived.

Broadway and films

Producer David O. Selznick made the first film adaptation of the strip with RKO's Little Orphan Annie (1932), starring Mitzi Green as Annie and Edgar Kennedy as Warbucks. Ann Gillis had the title role in Paramount's Little Orphan Annie (1938), scripted by Budd Schulberg and others. David O. Selznick David Oliver Selznick (May 10, 1902–June 22, 1965), was one of the icon Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. ... Mitzi Green (Elizabeth Keno) (The Bronx, N.Y. October 22, 1920 - Huntington Beach, CA, May 24, 1969) was a talented child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early talkie era. ... Edgar Kennedy (b. ... Picture of writer Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914 in New York City, New York) is an American screenwriter and novelist. ...

In 1977, Little Orphan Annie became a Broadway musical, Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin and book by Thomas Meehan. The original production ran from April 21, 1977 to January 2, 1983. There have been other international productions, and the musical has been filmed several times, notably the 1982 version directed by John Huston and starring Albert Finney as Warbucks, Aileen Quinn as Annie, Ann Reinking as Grace Farrell (Warbucks's secretary) and Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan, matron of the orphanage. The story took considerable liberties from the strips, such as having Oliver Warbucks visit Franklin D. Roosevelt at his home and reluctantly support his New Deal. Harold Gray deeply loathed Roosevelt and at one point killed the Warbucks character, declaring that he could not live in the current climate. Upon Roosevelt's death he suddenly brought Warbucks back, proclaiming that the air had changed. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Annie is a musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie. ... Charles Strouse, (born 7 June 1928), is a Jewish-American composer and three-time winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical. ... Martin Charnin (b. ... Meehan, Thomas (March 21, 1826 - November 19, 1901), American Nurseryman and botanist. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... January 2 is the second day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. ... Albert Finney (born May 9, 1936 in Salford, Lancashire, England) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated English actor of Irish descent. ... Aileen Quinn (born on 28 June 1971 in Yardley, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actress who played the title role in the movie Annie. ... Ann Reinking (born November 10, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress and dancer, most famous for her association with choreographer Bob Fosse. ... Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is a successful comedienne mostly on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. ... The New Deal was the title President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to the series of programs initiated between 1933–1938 with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ...

The Broadway Annies were Andrea McArdle, Shelley Bruce, Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Smith and Alyson Kirk. Notable actresses who portrayed Miss Hannigan are Dorothy Loudon, Alice Ghostley, Betty Hutton, Ruth Kobart, Marcia Lewis, June Havoc, Nell Carter and Sally Struthers. Famous songs from the musical include "Tomorrow" and "It's the Hard Knock Life." Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Andrea McArdle is an American singer and actress. ... Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965), is a Golden Globe and Emmy-winning American actress and an Emmy-winning producer, with a portfolio of television, movie, and theatre performances. ... Allison Smith (born December 9, 1969 in New York City), is an American actress best known for her work on television. ... Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1933 - November 15, 2003) was a Broadway actress noted for her comedy and belting singing voice, which she used to deliver a wide range of musical comedy and Roaring Twenties songs. ... Alice Ghostley (born August 14, 1926 in rural Missouri), is an American actress best known for playing the character of Bernice Clifton on Designing Women, Esmeralda on Bewitched and Aunt Alice on Mayberry R.F.D. after Frances Bavier left the show, and her character Aunt Bee was written out. ... Betty Hutton (born Elizabeth June Thornburg, February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007[1]) was an American film actress and singer. ... Marcia Lewis (born August 8, 1938) is an American character actress. ... June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick on November 8, 1916 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is an actress and dancer. ... Nell Carter, as Nell Harper on Gimme a Break! Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer and film, stage and television actress. ... Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948, Portland, Oregon) is an American actress and spokesperson, best known for playing Gloria Stivic; the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker on All in the Family. ...

Parodies

The strip lent itself easily to parody, which was taken up by both Walt Kelly in Pogo (as "Little Arf 'n Nonnie") and by Al Capp in Li'l Abner, where Punjab became Punjbag, an oleaginous slob. Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip in Mad, and later Kurtzman produced a long-running series for Playboy Magazine called Little Annie Fanny in which the lead character is a busty waif who continually loses her clothes and falls into strange sexual situations. Children's television host Chuck McCann became well-known in the New York/New Jersey market for his imitations of cartoon characters; McCann put blank white circles over his eyeballs during his over-the-top impression of Annie. The 1980s children's television program You Can't Do That on Television in its later banned "Adoption" episode, parodied the character as "Little Orphan Andrea". Andrea, like Annie, sported curly red hair and a red dress but, unlike her, was a very naughty orphan who had a habit of beating up other kids. A less well-known (or rather, notorious) example was the 'Daddy Fleshbucks' side-story from American Flagg!. Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913 - October 18, 1973), known simply as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. ... Pogo as drawn by Walt Kelly. ... I do Lil Abner!!, a self-portrait by Al Capp, excerpted from the April 16-17 1951 Lil Abner strips. ... Lil Abner was a comic strip in United States newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the town of Dogpatch. ... Harvey Kurtzman (October 3, 1924 - February 21, 1993) was a U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor. ... Wallace Wally Wood (born June 17, 1927, Menahga, Minnesota, United States; died November 2, 1981), was an American writer-artist best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ... Mad is an American humor magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952. ... The first issue of Playboy. ... Little Annie Fanny is a long running comic strip created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder for Playboy that parodied the comic strip, Little Orphan Annie. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... This is a listing of topics pertaining to television programs. ... You Cant Do That on Television (YCDTOTV) is a Canadian childrens television program, created by Roger Price and produced from 1979 until 1990. ... American Flagg! is a comic book written by Howard Chaykin and published by First Comics in the 1980s. ...

First Little Orphan Annie Sunday page (November 2, 1924)

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Archives

Harold Gray's work is in the Special Collections Dept. at the Boston University Library.

Reference

Sources

• Merrill, Jon. "Little Orphan Annie Big Little Books and Comics"
• Stolzer, Rob "The Violence and Villains of Little Orphan Annie"

Episode guide

• 1931: Maw Green; Blind!
• 1932: Trixie; Miss Treet; Cosmic City
• 1933: Elmer Pinchpenny; Dan Ballad
• 1934: The Bleeks; Prison!
• 1935: Eonite; Hollywood
• 1936: Jack Boot; Ginger
• 1937: Boris Sirob; Mr. Am
• 1938: The Brittlewits; Rose Chance
• 1939: The Buckles, Axel's Captive

Reprints

• Between 1926-34, Cupples & Leon published nine collections of Annie strips:

1. Little Orphan Annie (1925 strips, reprinted by Dover and Pacific Comics Club)
2. In the Circus (1926 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
3. Haunted House (1927 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
4. Bucks the World (1928 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
5. Never Say Die (1929 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
6. Shipwrecked (1930 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
7. A Willing Helper (1931 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)
8. In Cosmic City (1932 strips, reprinted by Dover)
9. Uncle Dan (1933 strips, reprinted by Pacific Comics Club)

• Arf: The Life and Hard Times of Little Orphan Annie: reprints approximately half the daily strips from 1935-1945. However, many of the storylines are edited and shortened, with gaps of several months between some strips.
• Dover Publications reprinted two of the Cupples & Leon books and an original collection Little Orphan Annie in the Great Depression which contains all the daily strips from January to September, 1931.
• Pacific Comics Club has reprinted eight of the Cupples & Leon books. They have also did a new series of reprints, with complete runs of daily strip, in the same format at the C&L books, covering some of the daily strips from 1925 to 29:

1. The Sentence, 1925 strips
2. The Dreamer, strips from 22 January 1926 to 30 April 1926
3. Daddy, strips from 6 September 1926 to 4 December 1926.
4. The Hobo, strips from 6 December 1926 to 5 March 1927.
5. Rich Man, Poor Man, strips from 7 March 1927 to 7 May 1927.
6. The Little Worker, strips from 8 October 1927 to 21 December 1927.
7. The Business of Giving, strips from 23 November 1928 to 2 March 1929.
8. This Surprising World, strips from 4 March 1929 to 11 June 1929.
9. The Pro and the Con, strips from 12 June 1929 to 19 September 1929.
10. The Man of Mystery, strips from 20 September 1929 to 31 December 1929.

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• All of the daily and Sunday strips from 1931-1935 have been reprinted by Fantagraphics:

1. 1931
2. 1932
3. 1933
4. 1934
5. 1935

• Picking up where Fantagraphics left off, Comics Revue magazine began reprinting both daily and Sunday strips starting in Comics Revue #167. (As of 2007, reprinting 1939.)
• Pacific Comics Club reprinted approximately the first six months of the strips in Comics Reuve, under the title Home at Last, 29 December 1935 to 5 April 1936.
• Dragon Lady Press reprinted daily and Sunday strips from September 3, 1945 to February 9, 1946.
• In 2008, IDW Publishing will start a new reprint series The Complete Little Orphan Annie, under their imprint "The Library of American Comics", picking up from where Fantagraphics left off, doing strips starting in the mid-1930s. The format will be similar to their reprints of Terry and the Pirates, hardcover with Sundays in color, but will instead reprint several complete storylines in each book, about two-years worth. [1]

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Listen to

• Little Orphan Annie opening theme song
• Radio Nostalgia Network: Little Orphan Annie (October 18, 1935)
• Fiorello La Guardia reads Little Orphan Annie on WNYC during the 1945 newspaper strike

External links

• Annie Current strip
• Don Markstein's Toonopedia
• Little Orphan Annie
• Orphan Annie pinbacks