Shirley Temple's Red-Haired Lady Mannequin from the 1941 Film "Kathleen"

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30" (76 cm.) A highly stylized slender lady mannequin with painted complexion and facial features including heavily lidded eyes with dark blue eye shadow, shaded full lips, and with red flossed hair in arranged looped bangs and bob, with shapely torso and limbs, painted black heels, detachable arms, and with original wooden stand which is stamped "Rubber Products Inc, Genuine Rubberlite, New York". The doll is wearing original nylon full slip with zipper back, and fitted ivory crinkle-cloth gown with fitted bodice trimmed with double tiers of lace and black velvet. The mannequin was a featured prop in the 1941 film "Kathleen", and appeared in numerous publicity photographs with Shirley that promoted the film; one feature in a September 1941 article of the Chicago Herald Tribune noted that the doll actually belonged to Shirley and "being a smart business girl Shirley rents it to the studio". Included with the mannequin are two vintage photographs depicting Shirley sewing fashionable costumes for the mannequin and five McCall patterns for Margit Nilsen mannequin doll.