1951-1963 Betsy McCall Doll

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Betsy McCall Dolls 1951-1963

McCall magazine featured a Betsy McCall paper cut-out doll with fashions and a story line that began in 1951. It ran in their magazine from 1951 for 44 years until it's demise. Ideal Toy company produced the first Betsy McCall dolls in 1951-1953, she was 14" tall, her brunette hair was a saran wig or rooted saran wig glued to her head, sleep brown eyes with real lashes and painted lower lashes, cute pug type nose and smiling mouth.

Ideal Betsy McCall 1952

Ideal - Betsy McCall 14" (1952-1953)

Marked Head - McCall Corp

Marked Back - Ideal Doll P90

This is Ideal's Toni doll body.

Unsure if this was her original outfit or one of her 7 separate fashions available.

Betsy McCall 1952 - face

Ideal - Betsy McCall 14" face close-up (1952)

Marked Head - McCall Corp.

Marked Back - Ideal Doll P90.

As with all dolls over time, pressured by competition, and to keep their product fresh and desirable the doll under goes various changes thus in 1957 Betsy McCall was now produced as an 8" tall doll and now made by the American Character Doll company, doll is much more posable, with bendable knees. Later still, would bring many other sized Betsy's into the market as well, all from American Character doll company (14", 20" flirty eye, 22" & 29" sized doll) and cousin's too; Sandy & Linda McCall.

8" Betsy Mccall 1958

American Character - Betsy McCall 8 " (1958)

Betsy in her original camisole, socks and shoes.

Marked - McCall Corp on her back. This is by far the most common sized doll and seems also the most prized by collectors

1958-1959 - A similar face was on the 14" size Betsy McCall doll, see below.

8" Betsy Mccall 1958 face

American Character - Betsy McCall 8" (1958)

Close up of her lovely face

American Character

1958-1959 - Betsy McCall

14" tall face

ac20betsy_mccaulflirtyeye2.jpg (34748 bytes) American Character

Betsy McCall, 20" tall, flirty eye doll.

American Character

1961 Betsy McCall, 22 & 29-30, 36" tall, all hard plastic with vinyl head, is fully jointed at the neck, shoulders, waist, hips, thighs and wrists, has sleep eyes and rooted hair, maybe marked on head: McCall / 19©1961 / COPP

Photo on right courtesy of Psychadurmont

American Character

1959-1960's Sandy McCall, 36 or 38" tall with molded hair, Patti Playpal sized, he was Betsy's cousin, made also by American Character, marked McCall Corp./19©59 on back of head, there is also a Linda McCall who is Sandy's twin sister, but we have not found this doll yet.

Sandy McCall 36" tall 1959

Over the years it seems every doll company had a shot at producing a Betsy McCall doll (Uneeda made a 11 1/2" sized doll, and Horsman made a Betsy McCall in the 1970's) - and even today (1996-2001) she is being refreshed and re-introduced by the Robert Tonner doll company.

Betsy McCall Dolls 1951-1963

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