Vintage

We’re selling a fabulous group of vintage cutout PAPER DOLLS, fresh from a local collector. Classic 1950’s for most, UNCUT and very exciting to find. Wonderful and unusual opportunity to add to your advanced collection, OR to start a new collection.

Pictured here is a wonderful set for collectors of Elizabeth Taylor memorabilia. 1950 original WHITMAN cut-out dolls set, unpunched and hard to find. 2 doll cardboard figures on covers, paper clothing inside.  Complete set in excellent condition, minimum light wear to the folder and great on display depicting Liz as a young MGM star.

Also shown here is a DEBBIE REYNOLDS cut-out dolls by Dell, 1953. Unpunched, authorized edition set of 2 statuette dolls and clothes.  These and many other famous movie stars are available in the connectibles store.

The following recent article in the New York Daily News by David Hinckley talks about some of the history between these two famous movie stars and their common husband – Eddie Fisher.

“Some of the coverage of Elizabeth Taylor’s death today has reminded us in passing that Liz and Debbie Reynolds made up.

This is a fact that deserves a moment of its own.

Because in a life with as many loose ends as Taylor acquired over 79 eventful years, it’s comforting to know at least one of them was tied up, especially since it involved one of Hollywood’s top-five all-time love triangles.

It also says sometimes in this world there is justice.

For those who missed it, Taylor scandalized the world in 1959 by stealing Reynolds’ husband, Eddie Fisher.

Husbands get stolen all the time, of course. But not by world-famous Hollywood glamour goddesses and not under these circumstances.

When Taylor was married to Mike Todd, she and Mike became best friends with Fisher and Reynolds, who were themselves an “America’s sweethearts” kind of story. The two couples hung out, had a few drinks, whatever.

Then Todd was killed in a plane crash and Taylor looked for comfort from her good friend Debbie. And, it turned out, from her better friend Eddie.

As Debbie recounted it to the Daily Mail in a long interview last year, she initially dismissed rumors of an affair. Then one night when Eddie was “on tour” and Debbie was feeling like a little conversation, she called her good friend Elizabeth. Eddie answered the phone.

That’s never a good sign.

It wasn’t a very smart move by Eddie, either, which is one of the first clues that maybe Elizabeth wasn’t the only thoughtless party involved here.

Anyhow, Debbie divorced Eddie, who immediately married Elizabeth, who five years later dumped him for Richard Burton, who had a bit of a drinking problem and was still an upgrade.

In any case, Debbie told the Mail, she was on a cruise with her new husband Harry Karl around 1966 when she learned Liz and Burton were on the same boat. At almost the same moment Liz and Debbie sent notes to each other suggesting they forget all that unpleasantness over Eddie and have lunch.

From that point on, says Debbie, all was forgiven if maybe not entirely forgotten. Reynolds and Taylor stayed in touch and in 2001 starred in a TV movie called “These Old Broads,” which was written by Carrie Fisher, who was one of the two young children with whom Eddie left Debbie when he bolted for Liz.

Don’t feel bad if you can’t keep track. It’s Hollywood, people. And by the way, Harry Karl turned out to be an even bigger lout than Eddie. He didn’t break Debbie’s heart, but he did gamble away all $50 million of her money, forcing her to file for bankruptcy.

Nor did it work out for Liz and Burton, either the first or second time.

So the moral of this story, or maybe the “justice”
part, is that smart women don’t let some stupid man break up a relationship that delivers actual value.

Plus, the way it worked out, a tale of scandal, betrayal, abandonment and heartache had a happy ending. Hollywood was good to Elizabeth Taylor and in the end, she gave back.”