#236

Cloth Salon Doll Portraying Silent Film Star Pola Negri
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$450
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Description
33"(84 cm.) Cloth doll with pressed and painted facial features,brown eyes with blue outlines,black eyeliner,brown eye shadow,black single-stroke brows,accented nostrils,closed mouth with full lips,black hair in elaborately arranged and pinned curls,elongated torso and limbs in the salon doll manner,wearing original costume with silk flower appliques. undergarments,black heeled shoes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: circa 1920,the doll portrays the silent film actress,Pola Negri,who immigrated to Hollywood from her native Poland and then Berlin film studios to belong a Hollywood smash actress. Value Points: beautifully-preserved salon doll with superb detail of painting and coiffure.