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Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Directed by Ben Holmes
Overview
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray’s comic strip but who is at no point in the film called ‘Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, ‘Pop’ Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny’s big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
Length 60 minutes
Actors
Ann Gillis | Robert Kent | June Travis | J. Farrell MacDonald | J.M. Kerrigan | Margaret Armstrong | Sarah Padden | James Burke | Ian Maclaren | Dorothy Vaughan | Ben Welden | Charles Coleman | Eddie Gribbon | Vince Lombardi | Harry Tyler