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The Bild Lilli doll was a West German line of fashion doll launched by Greiner & Hausser GmbH on August 12, 1955, and produced until 1964. Its design was based on the comic-strip character Lilli, created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild.
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Vintage German Bild Lilli Doll.. Vintage Barbie creator Ruth Handler
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A Bild Lilli Doll. Lilli's popularity grew so fast that Bild decided to merchandise their new star. With the blessing of Axel Springer, Bild contacted toy designer Max Weissbrodt at the O&M Haußer toy company. He designed a 12-inch plastic fashion doll with multiple parts for articulation. Her head turned separately from the rest of her body.
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A german "Lilli" doll by Bild from the late 1950's is seen in this file
Barbie owes her existence to a 1950s German comic strip Grace Dean "The 'Lilli' doll was the embodiment of an idea I'd pitched to Elliot and our other Mattel toy designers some five years.
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In 1955, Lilli dolls made their way onto the shelves of tobacco shops and adult stores in the German-speaking world. They became a beloved gag gift popular among men. Handler was enchanted by.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
While Mattel 's Barbie was always marketed to young girls, its inspiration was a German adult gag-gift doll named Bild Lilli, tracing its origins from a sultry figure called Lilli in Germany 's most popular tabloid Bild.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany 19551964. Bukowskis
This Bild Lilli doll was a platinum blonde, blue-eyed bombshell with large breasts. She wore red lipstick and blue eyeliner. Her feet were molded into black stilettos and she had arched eyebrows and sultry side-glancing eyes.
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First created as a comic-strip character in the Hamburg newspaper Bild-Zeitung, the Bild Lilli doll became so popular that she was immortalized in plastic — and sold as an adult novelty,.
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Lilli, also known as Bild-Lilli, is a discontinued West German comic strip created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild, appearing there from 1952 to 1961.
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1950s German Bild Lilli doll, 11.5", wearing boucle skirt outfit, 1182
Ruth Handler, who created the famous fashion doll, is played by Rhea Perlman in the Barbie movie. (Supplied/Reuters) abc.net.au/news/the-real-story-behind-barbie-creator-ruth-handler/102672884
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(Frank Hormann/AP) 5 min It was 1956, the co-founder of Mattel and her teenage daughter stood outside a shop in Switzerland, transfixed by the window display: An 11.5 inch doll with a platinum.
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A BildLilli doll, Germany, 19551964. Bukowskis
The Bild Lilli doll was a West German line of fashion doll launched by Greiner & Hausser GmbH on August 12, 1955, and produced until 1964. Its design was based on the comic-strip character Lilli, created by Reinhard Beuthien for the tabloid newspaper Bild. The doll was made of polystyrene, came in two sizes, and had an available wardrobe of 1950s fashion.
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Sold at Auction Bild Lilli Doll, German, 1950s. Black sideglancing
The doll was Bild Lilli, based on a newspaper comic strip character originally aimed primarily at men, in German newspapers. (Europe has a long tradition of cartoons for adult audiences such as Asterix or Tintin .)
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Bild Lilli Doll, German, 1950's, black
Bild Lilli dolls were popular with German men as joke toys that were given at bachelor parties or hung from cars' rear-view mirrors. Often maligned as a 'sex doll' the truth about Bild Lilli is a bit more complicated. Bild Lilli encapsulated the capitalist and materialistic spirit of post war Europe and her clothes - so unlike dolls.
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RARE VINTAGE BILD LILLI DOLL PRE BARBIE ORIGINAL OUTFIT GERMANY 1955
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Born in 1952 in Germany, the inspiration for America's most popular doll was a sexually assertive, modern young woman named Lilli. She emerged as a comic-strip character in Bild-Zeitung, a Hamburg newspaper, created by the German artist Reinhard Beuthien.