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11" (28 cm.) and 14". Each is all composition with socket head and jointing at shoulders and hips, including five babies with painted hair, sleep eyes, and wearing original tagged organdy gowns, representing the Dionne Quintuplets, and character-faced smiling man with painted features, wide smile, grey human hair wig, in unusual custom-made red velvet costume, sculpted to represent Doctor Dafoe. Very good/excellent condition, original finish, two babies with craquelure on crown. All marked Alexander. Circa 1935. Along with a photograph of the Dionnes autographed, "To Shirley Temple from Allan Roy Dafoe". The Doctor Dafoe doll is shown in a photograph of Shirley Temple's doll collection, Appendix E. Attempts to connect Shirley Temple and the Dionnes occurred several times through the 1930s, particularly in 1936 when Daryll Zanuck announced, prematurely as turned out, that the six youngsters were about to be cast in a blockbuster film. It never happened.