He believes he is her guardian angel but might just find it is the other way round. Now 11, she is starring as a modern Annie who has a hardknock life in New York with mean foster mother Miss Hannigan, played by Cameron Diaz, until opportunistic politician Will Stacks, a new version of the original benefactor Daddy Warbucks character and played by Foxx, takes her in as an attempt to boost his popularity with voters. Quvenzhane Wallis became, at nine, the youngest performer to be nominated for a best actress Oscar, for 2012's Beasts Of The Southern Wild. The latest Annie comes to the role with a well established pedigree. After that, I knew just what I wanted to do: study acting and audition."
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Catherine, an Oscar winner for the movie musical Chicago, remembers: "I loved it, I loved everything about Annie. I never thought I sang it particularly well to begin with."ĪNNIE was also the role that launched Catherine Zeta-Jones on to the stage when, aged 10, she played it at Swansea's Grand Theatre. I knew people would want me to sing Tomorrow but I did not want to do that. It was very important to me to be something else. She says: "When I finished playing Annie, I did everything I could in auditions not to be cute or loud or Annie-like. Others played the long game to fortune and chose better routes to greater stardom, such as Sex And The City star Sarah Jessica Parker, a former Broadway Annie at age 13. After a while I was like: 'I really don't want to sing at the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Suffolk County this weekend'." Among those Annies was Allison Smith who says: "People would call up and say their child was getting bar mitzvah'ed and they would pay $15,000 to have a real-life Annie come along and sing one or two songs. Some of the former Annies tried to cash in on their brief fame while they had the role, with pushy stage mothers hiring out their daughters to sing in Annie costumes at special events and private parties for big bucks.
Playing Annie, or one of her fellow orphans, was a special moment in the lives of so many performers and they have since formed an online sisterhood in the form of a website called where they check in with each other and share memories of their performances as well as updates of their lives. New York Times critic Clive Barnes declared after the first performance: "To dislike Annie would be tantamount to disliking motherhood, peanut butter, friendly dogs and nostalgia." The stage musical of Annie, featuring songs such as The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow, It's A Hard Knock Life and You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile, has been a global hit since opening on Broadway in 1977.
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She became a radio serial star in the 1930s and inspired movie versions in 1932, 1938, 1982 and now 2014. Over the years she remained the same plucky, compassionate, 11-year-old orphan with a red dress, a mop of red curly hair and an optimistic outlook on life.
She was created back then by cartoonist Harold Gray, who took inspiration for the character from James Whitcomb Riley's 1885 poem Little Orphan Annie. Like mourning the loss of a friend," said cartoonist Ted Slampyak, who drew the sad final story for The New York Daily News, the same paper where Annie's adventures began in 1924. The final instalment, after 86 years, came in 2010 and saw her kidnapped and left to an uncertain fate by a sinister eastern European war criminal known as The Butcher of The Balkans. She did not even get a happy ending in her comic strip adventures. Yet it has always been a hardknock life for Annie in one form or another.
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Moviemaker Sony is, however, trying to hunt down the people who leaked the film on to the internet three weeks before its December 20 opening in cinemas, prompting hundreds of thousands of people to download it, potentially costing the studio millions in lost box office revenue. The answer is no, it's still a family film." Jamie Foxx acknowledges we are living in a less innocent age: "My six-year-old daughter asked me if in this version Annie picks up a gun and hunts down the people who hurt her parents.
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This month sees the release of the latest movie version of Annie, a modern update produced by Jay-Z and Will Smith, which stars Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhane Wallis and Cameron Diaz. The character who launched the showbusiness careers of the likes of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sarah Jessica Parker is still going strong on stage and screen 90 years after making her debut in a newspaper comic strip.
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