“Little Orphan Annie”
The eleven-year-old girl who plays the title role in Paramount’s new comedy drama, ‘Little Orphan Annie,” is blue-eyed, red-haired, freckle-faced Ann Gillis. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Ann lived in Santiago, Chile, for a short time, but returned to the United States to settle in New Rochelle, New York, after the death of her father, a plantation operator. She attracted the attention of New York critics when she played in several “little theatre” productions, and then appeared on the Rudy Vallee hour as a guest artist. Advised to take the talented child to Hollywood, her mother did so immediately. Her picture record to date includes appearances in “The Great Ziegfeld” and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in the latter role of which she had the role of “Becky Thatcher.”
Hugh Herbert, lugubrious screen funny man, assumed his longest face and heaved a complaint at Hollywood’s romantic screenplayers with all the force of his personality.
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Northern Advocate, 11 May 1940, Page 10
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