

Warbucks, at first dismissive of Annie due to her being female, is charmed into letting her stay. Annie is chosen and she and Sandy travel to Warbucks' mansion, meeting his many servants and two bodyguards, Punjab and the Asp. Grace Farrell, secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, arrives to invite an orphan to live with Warbucks for a week, to improve his public image. However, Annie is escorted back to the orphanage. Bundles, adopting a stray dog which she names Sandy. Annie sneaks out with help from laundry man, Mr.

With half of a locket as her only possession, she remains optimistic that her parents, who left her on the doorstep as a baby, will return for her. It is run by Agatha Hannigan, a cruel alcoholic who forces the orphans to clean the building daily. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie is living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City. A fourth adaptation which was a live production of the musical was performed on December 2, 2021, on NBC. Columbia released a third film adaptation on December 19, 2014. In their first film collaboration, Disney and Columbia Pictures produced a second film adaptation made-for-television in 1999. Then it was followed by three additional adaptations of the musical. A television film sequel, titled Annie: A Royal Adventure! was released in 1995. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Song Score and its Adaptation.

Produced by Ray Stark's Rastar and released by Columbia Pictures on May 21, 1982, Annie received mixed reviews from film critics and grossed $57 million on a $35 million budget. Principal photography took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey in 1981. Set during the Great Depression in 1933, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire, Oliver Warbucks. It is the first film adaptation of the musical. Directed by John Huston and written by Carol Sobieski, the cast includes Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, with Aileen Quinn as the title character. 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.
