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Annie

diminutive of fem. proper name Ann or Anne (see Anna). Annie Oakley (1860-1926) was the famous rifle markswoman.

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Annie (musical)

Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years, setting a record for the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon Theatre). It spawned numerous productions in many countries, as well as national tours, and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical's songs " Tomorrow" and " It's the Hard Knock Life" are among its most popular musical numbers.

Annie (Norwegian singer)

Anne Lilia Berge Strand (born 21 November 1977), better known by her stage name Annie, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, record producer and DJ. Annie began her recording career in 1999 with the underground hit single " The Greatest Hit" and gained international acclaim, particularly from music bloggers, for her debut album Anniemal (2004).

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Annie (Our Lady Peace song)

"Annie" is a 1999 single by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace from the album Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch. It was less successful than other singles from that album, such as Thief.

Annie (1982 film)

Annie is a 1982 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from Broadway musical of the same name by Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan, which in turn is based on Little Orphan Annie, the 1924 comic strip by Harold Gray. The film was directed by John Huston, scripted by Carol Sobieski, and stars Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, Bernadette Peters, Geoffrey Holder, Edward Herrmann, and Aileen Quinn in her film debut. Set during the Great Depression, the film tells the story of Annie, an orphan from New York City who is taken in by America's richest billionaire Oliver Warbucks. Filming took place for six weeks at Monmouth University in New Jersey.

The film, released on June 18, 1982, received mixed reviews from critics and was nominated for Best Production Design and Best Song Score and its Adaptation at the 55th Academy Awards. Quinn won a Best Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards.

A television film sequel, named Annie: A Royal Adventure! was released in 1995. In their first film collaboration, Disney and Columbia Pictures produced a made for television remake in 1999. Columbia released a contemporary film adaptation on December 19, 2014.

Annie (1999 film)

Annie is a 1999 American made-for-television musical- comedy-drama film from The Wonderful World of Disney, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Columbia Pictures. It stars Kathy Bates, Victor Garber, Alan Cumming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, and introduces Alicia Morton as the title character.

It is the second film adaptation 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 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip by Harold Gray. It is also referred to as a remake of Columbia's 1982 film. It aired on ABC on November 7, 1999. This version earned two Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.

This is Disney's and Columbia's first film collaboration since Columbia distributed some of Disney's short animated Silly Symphony films from 1930 to 1932.

Annie (Anne Murray album)

Annie is the sixth studio album by Anne Murray issued in 1972 on Capitol Records. It peaked at number 14 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and number 143 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The album title was inspired by her pet name. It won the Best Produced MOR Album for Brian Ahern who also arranged the album. The front cover was credited to Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean fame.

Annie (1999 film soundtrack)

Annie is a soundtrack album for the 1999 film of the same name.

Annie (locomotive)

Annie is a steam locomotive that operates on the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man.

Annie (actress)

Chitra Shaji Kailas, popularly known as Annie is an Indian film actress. Her career spanned a total of three years with sixteen films in Malayalam cinema.

Her debut role was in Balachandra Menon's Ammayane Sathyam (1993). Her well known films include Mazhayethum Munpe (1995), Parvathy Parinayam (1995), Tom & Jerry (1995), Puthukkottayile Puthumanavalan (1995), and Swapna Lokathe Balabhaskaran (1996). She won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for her role in Mazhayethum Munpe.

Annie (1976 film)

Annie is a 1976 film about a mistress in Hong Kong.

Annie (given name)

Annie is the diminutive of feminine given names. It may refer to:

  • Anna, Ann, Anne, Annette, Andrea, Ana and other variations.
  • Annie Lowrie Alexander, American physician
  • Annie Haslam, UK progressive rock musician and painter
  • Annie Jessy Curwen, Irish writer and pianist
  • Annie Jump Cannon, an American astronomer
  • Annie Leibovitz, an American portrait photographer
  • Annie Lennox, a Scottish singer, vocalist of Eurythmics
  • Annie Leonard, an American critic of excessive consumerism.
  • Annie Mumolo, an American voice actress
  • Annie Nightingale, British radio broadcaster
  • Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter
  • Annie Pelletier, a Canadian diver
  • Annie Shaji Kailas, a Malayalam film actress
  • Annie Clark, an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter
Annie (2014 film)

Annie is a 2014 American musical film directed by Will Gluck and produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment for Sony Pictures' Columbia Pictures. A contemporary adaptation of the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name, the film stars Quvenzhané Wallis, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, and Cameron Diaz. The third film adaptation, following Columbia's 1982 theatrical film and Disney's 1999 television film, Annie began production in August 2013 and opened on December 19, 2014 to generally negative reviews, but was a box-office success, grossing over $133 million internationally.

Annie received two Golden Globe Award nominations, one for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (for Wallis) and for Best Original Song. Conversely, the film won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel and Cameron Diaz was nominated for Worst Supporting Actress.

Annie (2014 film soundtrack)

Annie is a soundtrack to the 2014 film of the same name, released by Roc Nation, Overbrook Entertainment, Madison Gate Records and RCA Records on November 17, 2014. The soundtrack's executive producer was Greg Kurstin, who also collaborated with Sia Furler to create new arrangements for three songs from the original Broadway production of Annie: "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here", " You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" and "Little Girls". Additionally, Furler and Kurstin wrote three new songs for the soundtrack, including "Opportunity", "Who Am I" and "Moonquake Lake" featuring Beck.

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Helen not only had an extraordinarily affectionate nature, but Annie could feel secure that her love would continue.

Wickenburg tied off the cord and cut it, then quickly cleaned the baby and gave her to Rafe to hold while the afterbirth came and she took care of Annie.

Annie was eager for the conference attendees to see and enjoy one of the grand old resorts of the Sea Islands.

Iain sent Morgan into the fort to make a full report to Wentworth, while he bore Annie across the bateau bridge to the island that served as Ranger camp.

Since Patrick had come home she had eased off a little bit but Annie knew her daughter well enough to know that something was bothering her, something more than usual.

With the evidence of Annie, as to the candle grease on the floor, and as to seeing the prisoner take the coffee into the boudoir, the proceedings were adjourned until the following day.

Hence it was that Mr Cupples thought he had heard the name of Annie Anderson before.

The result of the interview was, that Cupples sat up with him that night, and Mrs Forbes and Annie both slept.

But although Cupples could say much to set Annie thinking, and although she did find enlightenment at last from pondering over his words, yet she could have told him far deeper things than he had yet suspected to exist.

He had seen through the maternal precautions the last time he was at home, and talking with Cupples about it, who secretly wished for no better luck than that Alec should fall in love with Annie, had his feelings strengthened as to the unkindness, if not injustice, of throwing her periodically into such a dungeon as the society of the Bruces.

Ma Nelson had herself initiated in the far-off days of their beardless and precipitously ejaculatory youth, and others who might have formed such particular attachments to Annie or to Grace that you could speak of a kind of marriage, there.

The hand not employed in feeding Annie was fending off Dennis the pig, who was showing an unseemly interest in sharing their meal.

There were not two spoonfuls of modesty in Annie Flinders, even measuring her on one of her sweet days.

Miss Angelica Carstair-Flinders to plain Annie Flinders to make people think she was vigorous and two-fisted and entitled to get around and see a war.

Annie Flinders was in the Philippines, was an artiste, was a thwarted excitement-lover, and hence the sort of a person who would become quite excited when she saw Clark Savage, Jr.