For many guys in the 80s, the only musical they ever saw outside of Disney or Footloose was Annie, which as many know was based on the strip Little Orphan Annie. Directed by John Huston and with a strong cast, the film did quite well and still turns up on TV. The real legacy though is that if you see anyone with a red headed doll, they more or less instinctively call it Annie.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2462686464/tt0083564

What you may not know is that the comic had been getting dropped by a large number of newspapers and at the end was being run - after 86 years in daily print - less than 20 US papers were running it. So it got dropped.

And as endings go (which was a topic on a recent Thumbcast), this has to be up there with the best of them: she gets turned into a sex slave by a Balkan war criminal and Daddy Warbucks thinks she is dead, meaning there is little hope for rescue.

That might just top the end of Blake's 7 for the definition of downer...

(Thanks to Comics Alliance for pointing this out because, like most people, we weren't reading it)