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Description
20" (51 cm.) All-cloth doll with flat-dimensional brown-complexioned face stitched to red and white checkered head form and body, stitch-jointed arms and legs, hand-painted brown eyes with black eyeliner and upper lashes, wide smiling mouth, black yarn hair, and wearing original blue checkered skirt with white apron and shawl, red bandana. The doll has original paper label "Art in Cloth Dolls, An Original Georgene Novelty". Excellent fresh condition. Mid-1930s. Although unverified, it is likely the doll was gifted to Shirley Temple about 1935, inspired by the role of Hattie McDaniel as Mom Beck in "The Little Colonel" film of that year.