#120

Two Toy Koala Bears from Shirley Temple's Film Memorabilia
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12" (30 cm.) and 8". Pair of firmly stuffed fur-covered koala bears have glass eyes, leather nose and paw pads, and red silk ribbons at the neck. The toy bears appear on the top shelf in a vintage photograph of Shirley Temple's doll collection (see Appendix B) and in the photograph (shown here) in which William Seiter, director of the 1936 film "Stowaway", is presenting the koala bears to Shirley, certainly a souvenir of their work on their film, and possibly appearing in clips from that film.