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Description
20" (51 cm.) All-composition doll depicting the popular 1940s child star of MGM and Paramount, having sleep eyes, dark eye shadow, open mouth with smiling expression, brunette human hair in original factory coiffure, jointing at shoulders and hips, and wearing factory original flowered gown, undergarments, silver shoes, and socks, the costume tagged "Genuine Deanna Durbin Doll, Ideal". Generally excellent, small paint flake on throat. Ideal. Following upon Ideal's success with Shirley Temple dolls, in the late 1930s the firm licensed dolls to be made of another popular older child star, Deanna Durbin. Included are two vintage photographs of Shirley Temple and Deanna Durbin together (one with Robert Cummings) taken in 1940 when Shirley Temple was filming "Young People" for Fox and Durbin and Cummings were filming "Spring Parade" for Universal.