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| The flapper was a girl who just wanted to have fun |
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| Louise Brooks |
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| Louise Brooks |
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| Louise Brooks appeared in Diary of a Lost Girl and Pandora's Box |
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| Clara Bow The 'IT' Girl |
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| Lila Lee |
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| Clara Bow |
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| Clara Bow |
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| Barbara La Marr |
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| Evelyn Brent |
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| Barbara La Marr |
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| Colleen Moore spent her money building an expensive doll house |
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| Louise Brooks |
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| A young Joan Crawford appeared in Our Dancing Daughters |
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| Nancy Carroll |
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| Barbara La Marr |
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| American actor KENT TAYLOR |
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| The TRENT OSBORN doll, released in 2001 by Ashton Drake as GENE MARSHALL'S boyfriend. |
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| Kent sans mustache |
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| The similarity between KENT and TRENT is striking |
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| Both were sophisticated and debonair |
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| But the real doll could smile |
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| and sign photos |
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| and make movies and appear on postcards |
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| Kent loved his horse |
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| If only they'd released a horse for Trent |
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| Whether or not Kent was the influence for Trent we don't know..... |
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| So judge for yourselves, as the Trent doll goes up and up in value |
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| Mel Odom's Gene Marshall doll certainly looked like actress Gene Tierney |
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| The beautiful Gene Tierney in the flesh |
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| The Gene Marshall doll was very popular for more than a decade |
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| We knew Trent and Gene would end up together, seen here as a Vogue Pattern. |
I have collected Gene dolls ever since they came out, and each year bought one or two that I admired. I also have a Trent, a Madra and a Violet. But to me the original Gene's were the best. They had those smokey film noir eyes, and the most beautiful clothes you can imagine. Real quality all the way. The Gene doll looked like an actress that stepped out of a dream, and for many years her popularity could not be equaled. Sadly she is now no longer in production, and we have only great memories and our beautiful Gene dolls to remind us of past glories. A time when dolls were once again magical and nostalgic, and the stuff dreams are made of. 
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