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Description
18"(46 cm.) Wax shoulder head with elongated throat,black sculpted curly hair in side-parted
style,dark grey side-glancing eyes,painted features,closed mouth with painted row of
teeth,wrapped armature body,wearing taffeta wedding gown with silver metallic overlay and
bridal bouquet. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: 1920s,from a series of wax portrait
dolls of film actresses made exclusively for The Art Shop of the Ambassador Hotel; according to
research by Billie Nelson Tyrrell,this doll was Norma Shearer,and it is possible that she is shown
in her wedding gown of her 1927 wedding to Irving Thalberg,considered the "Hollywood wedding
of the year". Value Points: beautiful doll with wonderfully-preserved condition.