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From the soaps to Broadway. It's enough to make a girl say "Leapin' lizards." Which is just what Search for Tomorrow's Andrea McArdle, age 13, does in her new role as Little Orphan Annie. The Broadway-bound musical Annie, now playing at Washington's Kennedy Center, also stars Actor Reid Shelton as the magnanimous Daddy Warbucks and Unknown Canine Sandy as Annie's faithful mutt. Making his production debut with the play is Actor and Director Mike Nichols, who saw it in summer stock and was smitten. "It's a sweet show...
Died. Edward E. Tanner III, 55, who, under the pseudonym Patrick Dennis, wrote the 1955 bestseller Auntie Mame; of cancer; in Manhattan. Tanner was promotion manager for Foreign Affairs magazine when the eleventh publisher he tried agreed to print Mame, the zany tale of a rich young orphan and his eccentric aunt. It later became a play, a film and a Broadway musical. Tanner wrote twelve novels as Patrick Dennis and four as Virginia Rowans. "Writing isn't hard," he once said. "No harder than ditch digging...
...real thing, the sequences are both striking and moving. Sometimes the results are sheer hilarity. "Throughout the '30s," the narration says, "America's biggest factories were its dream factories." Factual glimpses of that decade are juxtaposed with scene after scene of little Shirley Temple, ever an orphan, lisping and dancing her way into the audience's heart. The moody films of the '40s follow a series of loners down a series of mean streets-an echo of postwar confusion and anxiety. A comic and ultimately sorrowful section is devoted to Marilyn Monroe, following her from screen...
...Barnaby, 3. From the looks of it, her present image is Hollywood wholesome in every respect. In Charlotte's latest TV movie-titled Sherlock Holmes in New York-she portrays sleuth's mysterious lady friend. Offscreen, Rampling is negotiating to adopt a young French orphan. "I'll want to spend more time with my children, especially as they need me more," says Mom. "My ideal now is to make about one film a year...
...Angeles-born U.S. citizen when she went to Japan in 1941 to visit a sick aunt. She was trapped in the war, and as a virtual P.O.W., she claims, was forced to make several of the 340 U.S.-monitored broadcasts. Her on-the-air nickname was "Orphan Ann." A 1946 U.S. Army legal memo acknowledged that there was no evidence that she had ever addressed treasonous remarks to specific American units. She never renounced her American citizen ship and, as a result, was convicted in San Francisco in 1949 on one count of treason. She thus lost her citizenship, spent...