#403

American Composition Celebrity Doll
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$350
sold
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Description
21"(53 cm.) Composition socket head with elongated facial shape of older child,brown sleep eyes,real lashes,feathered brows,open mouth,row of teeth,dimples at lip corners,brunette human hair wig in long arranged curls,five-piece composition body. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: portrait doll of Deanna Durbin (born 1921 in Canada),singer and actress,star of musical films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Ideal,circa 1939. Value Points: the beautiful doll with perfectly-kept hair and costume,is wearing her original white organdy gown with checkered-cotton sleeves,sash and ruffle,undergarments,gold snap shoes,and having a vintage celluloid button with her image and the words,"She's a doll". Included is an early studio photograph autographed Deanna Durbin,music sheet "Always"with Deanna on the cover and the message "sung by Deanna Durbin in the Universal Picture Christmas Holiday",and a Spanish folding paper doll book featuring her. $