Using subtle techniques Annie makes sure Grace chooses her to go with her to spend a week at Warbcuks' home. Outside the arrival of an expensive car draws a lot of attention, a beautiful young woman, smartly dressed rings the orphanage doorbell, she tells Miss Hannigan her name is Grace Farrell and is the private secretary to Oliver Warbucks - a munitions billionaire and is there to choose an orphan to live at the mansion. Annie is then picked up by a policeman and taken back to the orphanage, when Miss Hannigan discovers Sandy hidden under some bed sheets, she locks them both in the cupboard. One day Annie decides to run away by hiding in one of the laundry carts, to be collected by Mr Bundles - the laundry man.ĭuring her short time outside, Annie befriends a dog who she calls Sandy, from being tormented by a gang of rough street urchins. The girls' lives are made hard by Miss Hannigan who sees herself stuck in a miserable job that she hates. Annie is a 10 year old girl at the Hudson St Orphanage, run by Miss Hannigan - a horrible gin-soaked child-hating drunk. Set in New York during the early 1930s, unemployment is high and Prohibition is in and America is plunged into the Great Depression.
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