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...INJURED. Aileen Quinn, 10, freckle-faced star of the movie Annie; with a broken left arm, after falling off her bicycle while riding around near home; in Yardley, Pa. Although released from the hospital after four days, she had to cancel a three-week promotional tour...
...anvil hint is dropped in the opening scene: in a dormitory of Miss Hannigan's Dickensian orphanage, the eldest of six orphans jumps from bed to bed-and one galumphing foot lands splat! on the forehead of a younger girl. It's no wonder that when Annie (Aileen Quinn) gets the chance to live with Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney), she promptly forgets her orphan camaraderie. But then the entire movie is a series of plot strands twisted, then discarded...
Leading the nymphet brigade is Aileen Quinn, 10, chosen over 9,000 other applicants for the title role. Quinn can crinkle her eyes, read her lines, sell a song, tap her toes just like a real live girl; but because she is all calculating show biz and no childlike naiveté, she impresses as a red-headed homuncula. Her elders don't fare much better. Albert Finney, who manages a scowl that comes out a secret smile, has the right moves but not the forbidding magnetism of the world's richest capitalist. Ann Reinking, a terrifically sensuous dancer...
Surrounded by youthful cast members from the film Annie, including Newcomer Aileen Quinn, 10, Veteran Director John Huston, 75, seemed as pleased as Daddy Warbucks during a Dow Jones upswing. The screen version of the Broadway hit was his first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter Huston, through a jig in the 1948 classic Treasure of Sierra Madre. "And that," John admits, "was his own choreography." The Annie youngsters were just as professional. Says Huston: "If you understand kids, they never disappoint...
...Aileen Mary Rankin Merritt Island...