Happy Anniversary! Little Orphan Annie Turns 100 Today!

[John Silver]

The comic strip from which director and lyricist Martin Charnin got his idea for a Broadway musical debuted on August 5, 1924 in a single newspaper, the New York Daily News. Harold Gray continued to write and draw it for forty-four years, until his death in 1968, and it was continued, on and off, by other hands for more than four additional decades. Even those who have never read the comic strip are keenly aware of the spunky orphan, her lovable mutt Sandy, and her adoptive benefactor, Oliver “Daddy” Warbucks through the Broadway play, several movies, and the song “Tomorrow,” made famous by all.

[Tricia T]

This four-page flyer was issued by Tribune Media Services back in 1999, for the 75th Anniversary...I thought it might be worth sharing on the 100th Anniversary.