From 1924 to 2010, cartoonist Harold Gray’s Little ... rescued. Annie, wrote historian Elizabeth Maurer, was “neither ladylike nor cute ... she was the antithesis of Shirley Temple ...

Little Orphan Annie's voice is no more. Shirley Bell Cole, who voiced Annie in the popular radio show of the 1930s, died last month. She was 89. This music is from an earlier time. It's the song ...

Image Shirley Bell Cole with a publicity picture of herself as Little Orphan Annie, a role she played on the radio from 1930 to 1940.Credit...Marc Hauser “When one of the stories was that Mr ...

Annie Fellows Johnston’s Little Colonel Books series became one of the most celebrated children’s reads through the mid-20th century, not only in the United States but throughout much of the ...

Like Shirley Temple on film, the comic-strip heroine Little Orphan Annie lifted America's spirits during the Depression – but, politically speaking, she was never as innocent as all that.

America's little sweetheart, Shirley Temple ... In "Heidi," based on the classic novel by Johann Spyri, Temple plays a spirited orphan who is forced to live on a mountain with her gruff ...

The first film designed specifically for Temple, 1934’s “Bright Eyes” propelled her to international stardom. In the movie, she played an orphan ... Shirley’s best vehicles.” “The ...