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12" (30 cm.) All cloth doll with mask pressed and painted facial features, blue upper-glancing eyes, lashes, bow-shaped mouth, fleecy red ringlet curled hair, chubby body, original cotton play suit. Generally excellent. Georgene Novelties, circa 1936. Likely the doll named "Helen" by Shirley Temple, acquired on a trip in 1936. An article in The Humboldt Times of Eureka, Cali. August 1, 1936, related this story, "She loves dolls of which she possesses more than 200...Two of them accompanied her on this trip. Jimmy. a blue-eyed doll as big as a ten-month baby, lost an arm just as he was entering the Empress Hotel yesterday and most of the afternoon, sat despondently on a high-back chair awaiting the ïdoctor'. And Helen, who was added to the party, as they passed through San Francisco,... expresses Shirley's passion for red hair, her Titian ringlets being her crowning glory."