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1940's
Maid in Waiting, 14", Sabu 15",
both Thief
of Bagdad dolls.
All
composition dolls with jointed bodies, sleep eyes (Maid), painted eyes (Sabu), she is
wigged, dressed in her original outfit
with hangtag, and he is in original clothing, too. Dolls are
unmarked but have a hangtag to identify them.
Photo
courtesy of singram |
Marysia (Mollye) Goldman founded the
Mollye
International Doll Company in 1929 (also have seen the company name
as: Molly'es Doll Outfitters, Inc.). Early dolls are made of
cloth, originally they used
neighborhood women who sewed from their homes, later they opened
a factory that employed as many as 500 people. They also designed
costumes for other doll companies; Cameo, Effanbee, Horsman and Ideal (Shirley
Temple doll clothes).
Mollye also purchased quality composition, hard
plastic and vinyl dolls from various manufactures and then dressed them
in original clothing and sold them under her own name, Mollye
Dolls. Thus, many of the
composition and hard plastic dolls are unmarked but had a
hangtag, later vinyl dolls are marked on the head: Mollye.
From
1935-1938 Molly'es Doll Outfitters, Inc., produced the Raggedy
Ann and Raggedy Andy cloth dolls (several conflicting stories
about this, bottom line is they were sued to stop producing them by
Johnny Gruelle in 1938), 1937 they created the Hollywood Cinema Fashion
Doll series of stars and famous persons, they also made a
group of composition dolls in the 1940's based on the Thief of
Bagdad movie and are considered some of this companies finest work. |
Here are some Molly'es dolls we have found 1929-1970's.
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Mollyes Character
Dolls, 15, 18 or 24" tall, stuffed cloth body, yarn hair,
mask type face, with big round, side glancing painted eyes and mouth,
dressed, unmarked doll with a hangtag. |
Mollye Nurse doll,
all cloth doll, mask type face, 15" tall, has a Mollye cloth
label sewn on dolls leg. |
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1940's
Thief of Bagdad Movie Dolls; The Thief (Sabu)
15" tall, all composition, Sultan
(Miles Malleson)
19" tall all composition, Princess (June
DuPrez) 14" tall all composition or 18"
tall cloth doll, Maid in Waiting, 14"
tall, all composition, Prince Ahmad (John
Justin) 23" tall, cloth doll. |
Left to right; John
Justin, June DuPrez and Sabu
The Thief of Bagdad Movie
1940 |
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1940's
Sabu (The Thief) 15" tall, shown above is his
hangtag. The Thief of Bagdad
Movie in 1940, all composition jointed dressed doll. |
Sabu 15" |
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1950s
Lone Ranger, 28" tall, companion to Tonto, hard plastic head, sleep eyes, real
upper lashes, painted lower lashes, molded lightly painted hair,
open mouth, magic skin stuffed body, dressed in light blue long
sleeve shirt with gold braid, matching neck scarf imprinted with:
The Lone Ranger (picture of him with his horse Silver),
Hi-Ho Silver © TRL, Inc.,
brown pants, vinyl belt with gun in holster, brown vinyl boots,
black face mask, brown felt cowboy hat.
Hangtag and box read: Created my Mollye.
The box was originally imprinted with "Cowboy Joe" which was
scratched thru, and then imprinted with The Lone Ranger.
Photo courtesy of littlemarz |
1950s Lone Ranger, 28" |
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1950s
Tonto, 28" tall, Lone Ranger's companion, hard plastic head, sleep eyes, real upper
lashes, painted lower lashes, molded lightly painted hair, open
mouth, magic skin stuffed body, dressed in light brown suede like
cloth two piece shirt & pants, applied vinyl fringe and two
appliqué' faces with Tonto's name on upper shirt front, vinyl
belt, and headband, also imprinted with Tonto's name.
Hangtag and box read: Created my Mollye.
Photo courtesy of littlemarz |
1950s Tonto, 28" |
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Internationals
and Perky, 8" tall, vinyl head, jointed plastic body,
rooted short hair, sleep eyes, freckles sprinkled across her nose,
closed mouth. The Perky doll was sold, had other names
probably and redressed by many different manufacturers. |
Perky, 8" tall |
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Additional Molly-e dolls not
shown;
International
Children's Doll series, 13, 15, or 27" tall, stuffed cloth
body, mohair wig, with mask type painted face, wears a regional
costume, unmarked doll with a hangtag.
1935-1938
Raggedy Ann or Raggedy Andy, 17-22" tall, stuffed cloth bodies
allow doll to sit, legs are multi-colored striped material, dark auburn
yarn hair, painted face with large black eyes and triangle nose outlined
in black, was the first to print a heart on the dolls chest.
1935-1938
Baby Ann or Baby Andy, 14" tall, stuffed cloth body, usually stamped on the
chest; Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls, manufactured by Mollye Doll
Outfitters.
Baby,
Girls or Toddler dolls, 14, 15, 18 and 21" tall, all composition.
Teenage
or Lady dolls, 15, 18, 21 or 27" tall, all composition.
1937
Hollywood Cinema Fashion Dolls; June Allison, Joan Crawford, Olivia
DeHaviland, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Betty Grable, Jeannette McDonald, Queen
Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, all composition jointed dolls.
Teenage
or Lady dolls, 14, 17, 23, or 27' tall, all hard plastic, wigged,
sleep eyes, closed mouth, jointed at neck, shoulders and hip, unmarked
doll with a hangtag.
Baby
doll or Child dolls, 9, 12, or 16" tall, all vinyl, sleep
eyes, closed mouth, jointed at neck, shoulders and hip, marked: Mollye.
Darling
Little Women, 8 or 12" tall, all vinyl dolls.
Doll mold number 450 is
attributed to Molly'es Doll company |
