Cloth Salon Gentleman Doll Depicting Silent Film Actor John Gilbert,with Memorabilia

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26"(66 cm.) All cloth doll with mask-pressed face,painted facial features,brown downcast eyes with black and brown eyeliner,dark brown brows,closed mouth with accented lips,painted moustache,brown mohair wig,cloth stitch-jointed body with elongated limbs,wearing original black wool formal suit with vest,shirt and bow tie,and having a button reading "Lucky Star Button,John Gilbert". Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1925,maker unknown,the doll depicts John Gilbert (1897-1936),star of silent films such as "Heart ?O the Hills"with Mary Pickford,and "The Big Parade"which,in 1925,was became the second highest grossing silent film. Value Points: aptly-rendered portrait of the silent film star,included is an early studio photograph of Gilbert with the autograph "For Claire,My mother and sweetheart,Always,Jack"(with a notation on the reverse side that Claire was his mother in "The Big Parade"),another autographed photograph of Gilbert in his "The Big Parade"costume,a rare theatre book for "The Big Parade",and a copy of Screen Secrets,August 1929 with an article titled "John Gilbert,My Real Life Lover".