Daddy Warbucks
Example Sentences
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Ever since, he has strained to remake himself as a municipal Daddy Warbucks, handing out Christmas gifts to kids and groceries to poor families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2024
In short: Set in 1933, lonely business titan Daddy Warbucks decides he wants to adopt 11-year-old orphan Annie.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2021
This time the fabulous Taraji P. Henson gets ham up Miss Hannigan's solo "Little Girls," and Harry Connick Jr. plays the emotionally closed-off billionaire Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.
From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2021
Celina Smith has the title role, backed by co-stars including Harry Connick Jr. as Annie’s rescuer, Daddy Warbucks, and Taraji P. Henson as the orphanage’s callous Miss Hannigan.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2021
My favorite was Little Orphan Annie, the strip about an orphan girl named Annie who gets adopted by a bald millionaire named Daddy Warbucks.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
