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Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck black rag doll (it appeared with her in "The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters (every last one) she received from her lovers and her husband of fifty-three years. She kept every article of clothing made for her by the great French couturiers and the legendary Hollywood costume designers. She kept everything. And she believed in storage. Six storage companies, from New York to California, London, and Paris, held pieces of Miss Dietrich's life, locked away for decades like the pieces of the life of Charles Foster Kane. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars were paid in rental fees. After Dietrich's death, the articles were gathered together--twenty-five thousand objects and eighteen thousand images. Some were auctioned at Sotheby's in Los Angeles. The major pieces of Dietrich's vast collection were assembled in an archive and given to the FilmMuseum Berlin. Now, her treasures are brought together in 289 photographs from her own collection, with extended captions by her daughter, Maria Riva. We see Dietrich as a child, in velvet dress and golden ringlets...Dietrich as a young actress in Berlin...as the newly married Mrs. Rudolf Sieber, standing proudly with her husband. We see love letters and letters marking the ends of affairs. We see Dietrich in Hollywood...with Chaplin...with Fritz Lang...at the Paramount commissary...Dietrich captured in snapshots by her movie-creator, Josef von Sternberg...Dietrich as a mother. We see her at war...in never-before-published photographs of a USO tour...in uniform (tailor-made for her, of course)disembarking from a transport plane...Dietrich with the 82nd Airborne...Dietrich rolling into Germany in a U.S. tank.

In this folkloric examination of mass-produced material culture in the United States, Jeannie Banks Thomas examines the gendered sculptural forms that are among the most visible, including Barbie, Ken, and G. I. Joe dolls; yard figures (gnomes, geese, and golfers); and cemetery statuary (angels and figures of the Virgin Mary, soldiers, politicians, and sports-related images). Taken together, Thomas argues, these commonplace items elucidate a larger picture of gendered society than each is capable of doing alone. Images of females are often emphasized or sexualized, whereas those of the male body are clothed and armored in the trappings of action and aggression. Thomas locates these various objects of folk art within a discussion of the post-women's movement discourse on gender. In addition to the items themselves, Thomas explores the stories and behaviors they generate, including legends of the supernatural about cemetery statues, oral narratives of yard artists and accounts of pranks involving yard art, narratives about children's play with Barbie, Ken, and G. I. Joe, and the electronic folklore (or "e-lore") about Barbie that circulates on the Internet.

Rag doll - A rag doll is a cloth doll, typically home-made from (and stuffed with) spare scraps of material.

Doll - A doll is a model of a human (often a baby), a humanoid (like Bert and Ernie), an animal or a fictional character (like a Troll or a Smurf), usually made of cloth or plastic. Sometimes, intended as keepsakes or collections for older children and adults, it could be made in wood, porcelain, bisque, celluloid or wax.

Teru teru bozu - Teru teru bozu is a ghost doll made of white paper or cloth that Japanese farmers began hanging outside of their window by a string. This ghost doll is supposed to have magical powers to bring good weather.

Doll by Doll - Doll by Doll was a London based rock band. Jackie Leven formed the band i 1977.

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