Starting in January 1983, I co-published “Annie People,” the Newsletter for Annie fans. The history of our Annie Fan Club is below. In March 1998, I retired from public Annie fandom and as president of the Annie People fan club, but Tricia Trozzi continued the "Annie People" newsletter as usual up through issue #90, dated July 1999. Click on the link below for a synopsis of each issue. Paper copies are no longer available; it is hoped that we can get all copies onto a CD-ROM for sale some time in the future.
The history of the Annie fan club that Tricia Trozzi and I started in 1983.
Information and trivia about the 1982 Annie movie are at my Aileen Quinn page.
Why I didn’t like the 1999 Disney Annie movie.
External Link above - to read about Harold Gray's Orphan Annie comic strip. Note: Stuart Liss's page is revised and added to often and is very informative. "Annie People" is proud to have contributed material on the Orphan Annie comic strip to Stuart's page.
In 2000 a new Annie Web site was put together by an alumna from the Broadway/National Tour glory days of Annie in the early '80s, Julie Stevens. She is encouraging any past performers from that era of Annie to visit their Web site and provide updates of their post-Annie lives. Julie also has a Forum for performers and fans alike. This Web site is tailor-made for us devoted Annie fans who remember those old days with such fondness.
A plot outline for the historic original opening night preview performance of the Annie sequel on December 22, 1989 in Washington, D.C. Reprinted from the January 1990 issue of "Annie People."
An exclusive interview with Martin Charnin, conducted by Tricia Trozzi and published in "Annie People" in 1986. Learn all about the early creative process of "Annie" in the late 1970s.
· Info on LOA Big Little Books and Comics
Information I compiled on the Orphan Annie Big Little Books and comics and giveaways and what Harold Gray LOA strips they are based on.
Information I researched on the Orphan Annie strip of the late 1970s when old 1930s and 1940s Harold Gray strips were reprinted in the newspapers.
On September 19, 1997 I had the distinct pleasure of taking to see the 20th Anniversary Broadway production of "Annie" one of the most famous Annies ever -- Louanne. She played the title role at age 9 in the 2nd National in 1979 on the West Coast, mostly in Los Angeles, and was considered to be among the best ever to play the role anywhere. At the end of 1979 movie talent scouts discovered Louanne in Annie and brought her into the starring role in the movie "Oh God, Book 2" in which she played opposite George Burns. She played a charming 10-year-old named Tracy who thought up an advertising gimmick to get people thinking about God. After Louanne was done with the movie, she reentered "Annie," this time in the 1st National, and played the title role for several more months in 1981. Then she went on to do some TV movies and series, and her last movie was in 1988 and was called "A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon," in which as a teenager she played opposite the late River Phoenix.
Louanne is her real first name, although she always went by it only professionally, in the manner of Madonna, Prince, or Cher. She made history by being the ONLY child star in the history of Hollywood to make it big in all three media--theater, movies, television--all before her 11th birthday.
Now Louanne is a charming, grown-up 27, lives in California, and is eager to get back into the business again after a decade out of it. It was wonderful to see "Annie" with Louanne and get to know her in her adulthood. She said the show today is "very different" from what it was back in her day--the sets, the choreography, everything. While watching the show, Louanne said that seeing all the characters on stage and hearing the lines "brought it all back to her" with a lot of memories.
For more detail on Louanne's history, see the internal link below, elsewhere in this Web site.