Shirley Temple's Wooden Bungalow Dollhouse with Tynietoy Furnishings

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43" (109 cm.) l. x 26" d. x 26" h. A wooden bungalow style home with clapboard siding and shingles, decorative cupola, blue shutters with fleur-de-lis design, multi-pane windows, and wide front door, has two interior rooms that are furnished with signed pieces of Tynietoy furnishings (fold-downable, faux marble top table, dining table, chest of drawers, buffet, red wing chair, six various chairs, and sofa), and with various carpets and curtains. Also included are original picket fence sections on bases for arrangement as desired, a vintage photograph of the dollhouse, and a pencil sketch labeled "Shirley's Doll House". The dollhouse originally was made for the 1935 Fox film "Orchids to You" starring John Boles; in that film the doll-house appeared in a display that won first prize at the Annual Spring Flower Show. After the film was completed, the dollhouse was gifted to Shirley Temple who treasured it, placing the house in the center of her doll room (see Appendix D photograph) and writing of it in her 1988 autobiography, Child Star: "A standard stop on tours for children my age was a souvenir doll's house, now installed in our cottage bedroom. Piece by piece I demonstrated all its miniature equipment to Mary [Hayes, daughter of Helen Hayes] - the diminutive hooked rugs which lay on the parquet floors, the sheets covering each bed...Each door swung, every drawer slid open. Chintz curtains were tied back at each window, bric-a-brac cluttered the tiny tabletops, books lined the shelves...We examined everything, preoccupied with the housekeeping details, as little girls would..."