Part 5 of dollies that share the same set of clothes!

                                              

        

            

       Yvonne                       Peggy                          Patty Lou                     Yvonne

In 1936 Whitman Publishing Co. published a set of paper dolls portraying the Dionne Quintuplets whose birth in Canada had astonished the world when they were born in 1934. These little dollies and their adorable 1930's style clothes were drawn by the artist Avis Mac. 

In 1937 Dell Publishing used the same clothes drawn by Avis Mac, had the dolls redrawn, and published a paper doll book of Five Dionne Quintuplets. 

In 1939 Whitman Publishing had the dollies redrawn and used the clothing art work of Avis Mac to publish new paper doll books under the titles of Margie, Dotty, Patsy, Peggy, and Bunny. 

1941 brought a new set of dollies from Whitman Publishing named Betty Sue, Sally Ann, Mary Lee, Patty Lou and Mary Jane with the same set of clothes drawn by Avis Mac for the original Dionne quintuplet dolls of 1936.  I haven't discovered a 5th set, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Here are the clothes shared by Yvonne, Peggy, Patty Lou and Yvonne:

A neat green slicker and galoshes to splash thru puddles

 and a sailor dress to wear to the park 

dress up these dollies nicely.

A party dress and a warm outfit to wear to nursery school makes Yvonne

...and Peggy and Patty Lou and Yvonne happy little girls!

Four little sweethearts ready for almost anything!

These 4 little girls can be warmly bundled up for cold weather. 

A play suit with jump rope mean fun outdoors, 

and a sporty dress, coat and hat for an outing 

with mom and dad mean fun for Yvonne.

A suitcase, labeled with their names, to cut out, fold and construct 

was on the back cover of the dollies named 

Betty Sue, Sally Ann, Mary Lee, Patty Lou and Mary Jane.

And here are the individual sets of dollies

 that shared the lovely clothes drawn by Avis Mac:

                                                 

            

Cecile            Marie            Annette                 Yvonne             Emilie         

(published by Whitman Publishing in1936)

             

    

         

           Margie                     Dotty                 Patsy                     Peggy                Bunny            

(Published by Whitman Publishing in 1939)

                                                 

         Betty Sue                Sally Ann            Mary Lee            Patty Lou       Mary Jane

(Published by Whitman Publishing in 1941)

                  Cecile                     Marie                Annette              Yvonne           Emilie

(Published by Dell Publishing in 1937)

What do these dollies have in common...part 4!

                 

                  Emilie                      Bunny                        Mary Jane                 Emilie

This is the fourth group of dollies published by both Whitman and Dell Publishing companies using the same set of clothes for paper dolls Whitman published in 1936, 1939 and again in 1941 and Dell in 1937. 

The drawn set of clothes used in sets for the dollies above were first published in 1936 for Emilie Dionne, pictured on the far left, by Whitman Publishing Co. and cataloged as #1055. 

In 1939 Whitman published a set of five books using Emilie's clothes for their doll named Bunny. This set of books with dolls named Peggy, Dotty, Patsy and Margie were listed as # 1002. 

Again using the clothing drawn for Emilie, Whitman published the set that included Mary Jane in 1941. Other dolls in the 1941 set were  Sally Ann, Patty Lou, Betty Sue and Mary Lee and assigned #1010. 

On the far right is another Emily that was included in Five Dionne Quintuplets published by Dell Publishing in 1937.  This doll book, featuring five redrawn dolls, used the  same clothing graphics originally published by Whitman in 1936. 

The artist for the original set of Dionne books was Avis Mac. I have not discovered the names of the artists for the other books published as most paper doll books are not signed. Mary Young, author of several Tomart Price Guides on different publishers, produced a good reference on many of the paper doll artists of the 1930-50s in her book Paper Dolls and Their Artists published in 1975 by United Printers, Inc.

Emilie, Bunny, Mary Jane and Emilie can be nicely dressed 

to work in the garden or on a shopping trip with mom. 

Emilie loves to be outdoors in the snow or inside painting pictures.

A walk in the rain, a picture to paint, getting ready for bed

 or sailing her toy boat on the pond, Emilie is always sweetly dressed. 

A pretty yellow dress to wear at tea time 

and a warm green sweater and skirt if it's cool, 

but I bet her favorite thing to wear

 is her bright red slicker and galoshes!

After her day at the park, Emilie and her dolly are all ready for bed.

Each of the doll books in the set that included Bunny, Margie, 

Dotty, Patsy and Peggy had this sweet little tea party scene 

on the back cover with a slit to slide the dolly behind the table.