6One-of-a-Kind Cloth Dolls of Silent Screen Stars by Mary Green for

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11"(28 cm.) Each doll is constructed with padded cloth over armature,and having slightly- dimensional facial features with painted complexion and detailed features that are an apt characterization of the actual person,stitched-on wigs,and each is wearing a costume from an actual film. Condition: generally excellent,slight dustiness on some costumes. Marks: made by Mary Green (on most,and some with original inventory number and paper label indicating name of doll and film in which the costume appeared). Comments: the dolls were created by artist Mary Green under special commission for Daniel Blum,editor of Screen World,circa 1940s,and were used illustratively in his Screen World Annuals; after Blum's death in 1964,the dolls were auctioned in New York. Included are Joseph Santley from 1915 film "All Over Town",Blanch Ring from "The Wall Street Girl"(1915),Eugene O'Brien from "Kitty McKay (1914),Willette Kershaw from "The Crowded Hour"(1919),Donald Brian from "The Siren"(1911) and E.A. Sothern (no film designated). Value Points: very rare one-of-a-kind dolls with superb detail of painting and costuming,apt historical documents of America's earliest silent film stars.