For example The Kid is thought to reflect Chaplin's own childhood trauma of being sent into an orphanage and the main characters in Limelight ( 1952 ) are thought to contain elements from the lives of his parents.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

She is the catalyst that transforms Homer from his comfortable but not entirely admirable position at the apple orchard to becoming Dr. Larch's replacement at the orphanage.

In 1950, the owners, the Düsseldorf chapter of the Knights of Malta, turned it into an an orphanage, but it has subsequently returned to private ownership and is today a private residence again ( Anon.

In 2001 on the popular game show Kaun Banega Crorepati's first season hosted by Amitabh Bachchan she won 50, 00, 000 that she donated for the welfare of Gujarat's earthquake victims. The show was aired on February 10 at 8 pm on Star Plus. Madhuri Dixit is also requested to the producers of KBC to send part of her winnings to an orphanage in Pune.

In the Western world, the first generally accepted pediatric hospital is the Hôpital des Enfants Malades ( French: Hospital for Sick Children ), which opened in Paris in June 1802 on the site of a previous orphanage.

* July – History of the Ursulines in New Orleans: Seventeen Ursuline Sisters from France land in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they found the orphanage which is the predecessor of the Catholic Charities and the Ursuline Academy, making the latter the oldest continuously-operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States.

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

Aniston is a supporter of Friends of El Faro, a grassroots non-profit organization that helps raise money for Casa Hogar Sion, an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico.

Al is an Admiral in the Navy who mostly grew up in an orphanage.

He founded an orphanage for urban street children in 1986 called Lafanmi Selavi is Life.

Medemblik further has a picturesque small innercity with many houses from the 17th and 18th century, two big churches, an old orphanage, a town hall and, of course, castle Radboud, which is just at the border of the innercity.

The State School Museum is located at West Hills on the grounds of the former state orphanage, the Minnesota State School for Dependent and Neglected Children.

The original buildings no longer stand, but it became the site of the Episcopal Church Home for Children, an orphanage located for many years in York, which is today a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children named York Place.

Edgar Buchanan, too, gives an excellent performance as a good-old-Charlie friend, and Beulah Bondi is sensible as an orphanage matron.

Joe Christmas, whose name is obviously symbolic, showed up in front of the orphanage on Christmas Day, symbolic of Jesus ' birth.

The story opens in a dreary, Dickensian orphanage where Annie is routinely abused by the cold, sarcastic matron.

Unfortunately, his business takes him far from home for long periods of time and he is unable to protect Annie from his spiteful, jealous wife who eventually returns Annie to the orphanage.

When Warbucks is suddenly called to Siberia on business, his wife spitefully sends Annie back to the orphanage.

Irreparably traumatized, Lecter escapes from the deserters and takes up residence in an orphanage, where he is bullied by the other children and abused by the dean.

He is found and taken to the orphanage at Hellgate.

An orphanage was located high on a bluff in what is now Inwood Hill Park in the nineteenth century.

This is seen in the first book, when she neutralizes five large bullies singlehandedly, and also when she engages two policemen ( who were determined to take her to an orphanage against her will ) in a game of tag.

The Jewish children of the orphanage in Vác were also evacuated.

France also evacuated dignitaries, families of Habyarimana regime officials, and the children in a presidential orphanage.

) The brothers are separated, and Solek is placed in a Soviet orphanage in Grodno with other Polish refugee children.

Solek lives in the orphanage for two years, where he joins the Komsomol and receives Communist indoctrination.

Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months March 14, 2008.

His father left his family the year Appleton was born and he spent his first years in Mrs. Bell's ( an orphanage ) and with his brother ( Michael Charles Appleton, born 1932 ) at Palomar Military Academy.

The original ending of the film saw Sam go missing ( after he had left the child at the orphanage ) while he was meant to be writing an article about an upcoming boxing match.

Stevens left a $ 50, 000 bequest to start an orphanage that eventually became the state-owned Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.

When Barnes died in 1948, she left her entire estate to a Valdez orphanage.

After marrying Prakash, Mandakini left her governmental medical job and moved to Hemalkasa to eventually start a hospital, a school, and an orphanage for injured wild animals, including a lion and some leopards.

She then asks her to read the note her parents gave her in 1922, when she was left on the doorstep of the orphanage.

Once she has left, Miss Hannigan explodes with her hatred for all the girls in the orphanage (" Little Girls ").

The child is eventually born and left at an orphanage ( eventually taking the name Ibn al Xu ' ffasch ).

Orphaned, their relatives used up their inheritance and left them at the orphanage.

He left money in his will that would start an orphanage for the children that lost parents in the mill explosion.

With Muraleedharan being pushed to the verge of political orphanage, Karunakaran left his party and formed a new political outfit with him as the President.

He left Stans to recover in Gurnigel, an Alpine health resort, hoping to return to the orphanage when the buildings were free.

He was left at an orphanage on Jeremy Street 30 years ago and grew up without parents, a possible reference to Evans ' own childhood.

When he heard that Sidney left his baby at the same orphanage at about the same time, he suspected that Sidney was his father.

He manages to give the countess her child back, who was really left in an orphanage, and the newspapers reveal that Li Chang Yen, the famous Chinese politician, has committed suicide.

The day after his birth, his mother left him on the steps of the dell ' Annunziata orphanage and he was taken in to live with the other foundlings.

She fell ill in Berlin and was left in an orphanage, where she was later found by her father.

Sly and his friends eventually left the orphanage and formed a gang called The Cooper Gang, pulling off amazing heists and robberies.

He was left at the Bradwell orphanage (# 35 " Mother ").

The child is left at an orphanage ; he is adopted and given the name Ibn al Xu ' ffasch which is Arabic for ' son of the bat '.

His parents later placed him in an orphanage, where he stayed until about 1935, when at age 17 Jack left the orphanage.

Lisa soon discovers that Ronaldo has been working in a flamingo costume on the children's television series Teleboobies, which is the reason he left the orphanage.