Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney

"Little Annie Rooney" was a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. Although it was an obvious knockoff of "Little Orphan Annie", the approach was quite different, and it had a successful run from 1927 to 1966. The strip's creators over the years included Ed Verdier (1927-28), Ben Batsford (1930), Sundays by Nicholas Afonsky (1934-43), writer Brandon Walsh (1931-53) and Darrell McClure (1930-66).

Origins

The origin of the character was a 19th-century song by Michael Nolan. After Nolan sang "Little Annie Rooney" in English music halls in 1890, Annie Hart (aka "The Bowery Girl") brought it to the United States. When she performed at New York's London Theatre, the song became a hit, but the absence of any international copyright laws kept Nolan from collecting royalties. A bitter Nolan retired from composing, and his song later became a favorite piano roll and calliope tune, heard at circuses and carousels::A winning way, a pleasant smile, :Dress'd so neat but quite in style, :Merry chaff your time to wile, :Has little Annie Rooney. :Ev'ry evening, rain or shine, :I make a call twixt eight and nine, :On her who shortly will be mine, :Little Annie Rooney. :She's my sweetheart, I'm her beau; :She's my Annie, I'm her Joe, :Soon we'll marry, never to part, :Little Annie Rooney is my sweetheart!

:The parlor's small, but neat and clean, :And set with taste so seldom seen, :And you can bet, the household queen, :Is little Annie Rooney. :The fire burns cheerfully and bright, :As a family circle round each night, :We form, and ev'ry one's delight :Is little Annie Rooney.

:We've been engaged close on a year, :The happy time is drawing near, :I'll wed the one I love so dear, :Little Annie Rooney. :My friends declare I'm in a jest, :Until the time comes will not rest, :But one who knows its value best, :Is little Annie Rooney.

Annie Rooney's pet expression was "Gloriosky!" That unique G-rated epithet and "Little Orphan Annie"'s "Leapin' lizards!" both found their way into the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim song, "Gee, Officer Krupke!", from "West Side Story".

Harvey Kurtzman had both Annies in mind when he created his satirical "Little Annie Fanny" for "Playboy", though the ribald parody owed far more to the original Harold Gray strip.

Films

Mary Pickford starred as a girl of the slums in William Beaudine's 1925 silent comedy-drama "Little Annie Rooney" (United Artists), set in New York's Lower East Side. Audiences found nothing unusual about 32-year-old Mary Pickford portraying a 12-year-old, and this became one of her more successful films. Turner Classic Movies has aired a restored version.

The Fleischer Studio did a "Little Annie Rooney" animated "Screen Song" in 1931. "Little Annie Rooney on the Highway to Adventure" was one of several Big Little Books. After a 1935 book of reprints, "Little Annie Rooney" was seen in comic book reprints -- David McKay's "Feature Book" #11 (1938), "King Comics", a 1948 three-issue series published by St. John and the "Treasury of Comics" annuals (1948-1950), also from St. John.

Watch

* [http://www.archive.org/stream/little_annie_rooney/little_annie_rooney_256kb.mp4 Mary Pickford in trailer for "Little Annie Rooney" (1925)]

References

Strickler, Dave. "Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index." Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.

External links

* [http://www.toonopedia.com/annieroo.htm Don Markstein's Toonopedia: "Little Annie Rooney"]

There is also a Scottish saying of "He (or She) is having an Annie Rooney". Which means that the person is displaying rage and anger, or just plain mad.


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