‘Little Orphan Annie’ Radio Actress Shirley Bell Cole Has Passed Away

I wont pretend to know Shirley Bell Cole but the story touched my heart. In the time of the great depression a red head little girl went on the radio for six days a week portraying the heart warming character of Annie. This was time when people believed the radio its the time when people listened to the radio and believed War Of the Worlds was a actual news broadcast. At the time of the depression most people had nothing in their hands people were sitting in tents in central park to compare the current depression to the great depression is comparing Iraq to Vietnam, just silly. This girl managed to inspire children around the country to achieve more than the lot they were given, thank you Shirley Bell Cole and may you rest in peace

The actress died at the age of  89 of natural causes leaving friends and family missing her,  below details on the Orphan Annie.

Annie was the adopted daughter of Oliver Warbucks, known as Daddy, the cue-ball-headed, tuxedoed (at least on paper) capitalist who took his girl and her dog, Sandy, on journeys abroad. Reading scripts from behind the microphone, little Miss Bell (with sound effects like a cascading waterfall or a cackling bird) would transport listeners into treacherous adventures in often exotic places. Annie was captured by pirates in the South Pacific. Off the coast of Africa, she eluded headhunters by fashioning masks of herself and propping them in every porthole of Warbucks’s big boat.

When Daddy Warbucks was off on his own, Annie stayed at a farm in Simmons Corners with Mr. and Mrs. Silo. In town she would trail bank robbers and turn them in to the police.

Source: New York Times