Doll-A-Day 2017 #250:Mary Hartline

  Today's doll is this lady.

She's Mary Hartline.

She was made by Ideal.

She looked like this in her box

She measures about 8" tall.

The real Mary Pauline Hartline was born in 1926. She was one of the stars of early television,appearing on the show "Super Circus".

You can watch a complete episode of the show HERE.
Mary was featured as the band leader,which accounts for the music notes on her skirt.

The show was filmed in Chicago from 1949 to 1955, when it was moved to new York, and some of the cast, including Mary, was replaced.

During her time on "Super Circus" Mary was so popular that she was produced in doll form several times,as well as about three dozen other products from boots to paint sets, to paper dolls, to puppets to clothes.

Mary's famous boots were achieved on this 'Dress Me' type doll by painting beyond the molded on shoes. I always thought Mary was a majorette because of the boots and the baton the dolls come with that looks like the kind somebody would carry when marching.

Her dress has a built in onsie.

Her dress buttons in the back with two LARGE buttons.

The real Mary, showing off a couple of her doppelgangers.

Following her departure from "Super Circus" Mary appeared for 18 months on the Chicago show "Princess Mary's Magic Castle",after which she retired from show business altogether.
This particular Mary Hartline doll is like the Dress Me craft dolls,with the strung head and arms and unjointed hips. She needs restrung because her head and arms aren't attached.

The glue from the felt heart in her hair has gotten into her hair. She has very bright blue eyes.

I'm not sure, but I think they were following me.

I guess she got tired of me.

The hole where her head goes.

These dolls are easy to restring with rubber bands. My sister and I used to restring our Dress Me type dolls that way all the time. Of course, the rubber bands decompose and sometimes they get goopy, so it's better to use doll stringing elastic.
See you tomorrow when we'll look at another doll.

A Yard Sale Haul

  It's already Friday and I did some more yard saling today,but I wanted to show you some of my good finds from last weekend. First of all is this bunch of goodies. The tricycle for Tippee Toes was 25 cents. From the same lady I got Cathy Quick Curl in her box for $3. Cathy was her childhood doll, and she lovingly smoothed Cathy's hair as she put her in the box for me.

I also got the When I Read I Dream Heidi doll for $3 at a different sale.

   I got these things at one sale. The musical Happy Birthday cake  plate and the Old Maid cards were 50 cents each, and the needs-to-be -restrung Mary Hartline was a dollar.

I kind of don't see the point of the Happy Birthday plate actually having that written on it, because once the cake's on it you can't see that anyway. I love the pictures on these Old Maid cards. I have an old miniature set with an Old Maid that looks like Carol Burnett, and the 1950's or 60's set from my childhood, so I've  inadvertently started a collection.

  This Polish doll was 25 cents, and came from the same sale as Cathy Quick Curl.

 I have another one of these that belonged to Ken's sister when she was a little girl. She gave it to us because when they were kids and the doll's hair fell out, their mother replaced it with Ken's hair, which it still has.

  I also got a vintage flowered tablecloth for 50 cents,8 vintage cloth napkins for 80 cents,and this signed Tasha Tudar book for 50 cents.

This is the second signed Tasha Tudor book I've found at a garage sale in this town. Both were less than a dollar.

  I got a load of Barbie furniture and clothes, a wooden swinging doll cradle and some other stuff for $2, a Moxie Girl, complete with clothes and shoes, a nude Bratzillaz Meygana, and an 18" Madame Alexander My Favourite Freinds doll, all for $2. The reason I got so much stuff was because it was the weekend of 2 community yard sales, including the biggest one in town,(Almost an entire housing development has sales.)  plus 2 church sales and random regular yard sales. I bought a lot of random things too, like DVDs and records,a Holly Hobbie sheet set,several chunks of fabric, a set of talking Three Stooges golf club covers, an almost complete Moxie Girlz Magic Snow cabin,and two vintage planters with fawns on them.
    Coming soon,a new doll, and more yard sale finds.