An Antique Shirley Temple Doll

Shirley Temple doll poses with a upright toy piano.

       This is the Shirley Temple Doll, the best known doll in the world. Children in every part of the world know her and love her. 

       This darling looks very much like the real Shirley Temple. She has dimples like Shirley and her hair and eyes are the same color. Shirley was the first doll to have hazel eyes. 

       Like Shirley Temple, the Shirley Temple doll has a great many dresses. Many of these are like Shirley Temple's. The doll has a red polka dot dress with puffed sleeves, a light blue, a yellow print, a silk dress with a velvet jacket for best, a frilly pleated dancing frock, a Western cowgirl suit and a white sailor suit like the one Shirley Temple wore in the movie "Captain January."

Learn more about Shirley Temple dolls...

• Original advertising for Shirley Temple dolls
• A Shirley Temple paper doll you can color by Laura Brock

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