Annie is a 1982 comedy-drama film directed by John Huston. It looks at the life of an orphan, who lives in an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan. She gets a chance to change her life when she gets to ...

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 the film’s namesake, little orphan Annie made her way into the hearts ...

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his ...

The Annie story is based on the comic strip series Little Orphan Annie, which followed the adventures of a young orphan girl and her dog as they get a new lease on life thanks to her adoptive father, ...

Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on Little Orphan ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Movie musicals are a unique genre in that they are often adaptations of another medium: the stage musical. It’s a tricky transition from stage to film, which is why movie ...

The 1982 version of Annie was carried by several accomplished actors in the cast, including Tim Curry, Carol Burnett, and Bernadette Peters. By the time Curry, Burnett, and Peters began filming Annie, ...

Aileen Quinn was only 9 years old when was chosen to play a red-headed orphan, beating 8,000 young girls for the role – and it forever changed her life. The child actress skyrocketed to fame overnight ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1982, the musical film Annie opened theatrically in over 1,100 theatres. The ...

The second season of Carol Burnett‘s Palm Royale premieres on November 13, 2025. The show is Burnett’s first steady role on the small screen in several decades, giving us the perfect reason to look ...