DEAR HELAINE AND JOE: I am interested in knowing about my Shirley Temple doll. She was made by Ideal and is number ST-17-1. My mother gave her to me in the 1950's (I believe it was 1957). Please let ...
Question: I own an original composition, jointed Shirley Temple doll given to my grandmother as a 1930s Christmas gift. It is 22 inches tall, marked “Ideal,” wears a curly blond wig plus all original ...
The 1930s forever remain synonymous with the Great Depression. For most American families, the stock-market crash was a swift and staggering blow that dashed dreams and economic aspirations. Despite ...
Photo by Kate York Diane Pfile, vice president of the board at the Children’s Toy and Doll Museum, places tags on her collection of Shirley Temple dolls at the museum. MARIETTA — If the legend is true ...
Shirley Temple composite doll, made by the Ideal Toy Company. The doll is molded to represent a young, white, female child, blue eyes, red lips, and blonde hair. The doll is dressed in a yellow cotton ...
The New York Times called her "the nation's best-liked babykins." In the 1930s, her portrait showed up everywhere, from a poor black laborer’s cabin in South Carolina, to young Andy Warhol’s house in ...
Question: Attached is photo of a doll given to me by a guest who stayed at our Summer Nites Bed & Breakfast. It is 12 inches high, marked "ST-12-N" and "Ideal Doll-ST12." She wears original, labeled ...
Those curls. Those dimples. That spunky, can-do spirit. Whether she was tap-dancing us out of our Depression worries during her 1930s heyday, or providing a welcome bolt of sunshine to the generations ...
Shirley Temple, the legendary child star whose corkscrew curls and dimples, heart-melting smiles and heart-breaking tears made her one of biggest stars of Hollywood in 1930s has died. She was 85.