Madame Alexander created quite a few dolls based on Hollywood characters but the most famous and adored are the “Wizard of Oz Doll Collections” based on The 1939 Wizard of Oz American Musical base on a 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Which later was telecast in 1956 and became [...]
Wow!!! How great is it to be able to see the world through the Madame Alexander international doll collection?
In 1961 Alexander began producing 8” international dolls. Madame Alexander’s highly prized International Collection continues their pledge to educate children by celebrating the wonderful diversity of the world’s cultures and traditions.
The international doll collections cover countries like:
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Renowned doll maker Madame Alexander made black collectible dolls. The first two black dolls she made names where Hilda and Cynthia-both using a Margaret O’Brien face mold. In the 1950s, white civil rights activist Sara Lee Creech led an effort to produce more authentic African-American dolls, in which she was joined by Eleanor Roosevelt and [...]
Alexander 18” cloth dolls came about during the first World War. Before World War I Beatrice, known as “Madame Alexander” parents ran a successful doll hospital.
Many of the dolls that filled Maurice Alexander’s (Beatrice Dad) shop and hospital came from Germany, and Hannah and Maurice’s livelihood was soon threatened by Allied embargoes of German goods.
That’s [...]
Vintage Madame Alexander Cissy dolls was released in 1955, and they were the first of the modern fashion dolls.
What set Cissy apart as something new and different was truly her sophisticated and mature figure with high-heeled feet. She was an expensive doll at the time, and today a dressed doll in mint condition commands an [...]
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The Scarlett O’Hara Dolls were inspired by the book/movie “Gone With The Wind.” The Collection dates from the early days, when the movie was released in 1939, right up to the present day.
Scarlett O’Hara is a charming Southern belle who grows up in Clayton County, Georgia plantation Tara the years before the American Civil War.
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