Shirley Temple's Tynietoy Bungalow

While doing some research on an upcoming TynieToy article, I came across a couple of photos and articles about a dollhouse that was used in the 1935 movie "Orchids For You"  After filming was complete, the house was given to child star Shirley Temple by the movie studio 20th Century Fox.

While the house was not manufactured by The TynieToy Company, the interior two rooms were filled with TynieToy Furnishings.

In her 1988 autobiography, Child Star she wrote: "A standard stop on tours for children my age was a souvenir doll's house, now installed in our cottage bedroom. Piece by piece I demonstrated all its miniature equipment to Mary [Hayes, daughter of Helen Hayes] - the diminutive hooked rugs which lay on the parquet floors, the sheets covering each bed...Each door swung, every drawer slid open. Chintz curtains were tied back at each window, bric-a-brac cluttered the tiny tabletops, books lined the shelves...We examined everything, preoccupied with the housekeeping details, as little girls would..."

Shirley Temple was not in the movie, but worked for the studio.  I came across this picture of her showing the house to Mary Hayes, daughter of actress Helen Hayes.  

The house had a special place in the center of Shirley's Doll Room.  The house and its TynieToy furnishings recently sold at auction for $4,000.

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