Then they would be whisked off to a parallel world to save its inhabitants from the villain, an evil but inept sorcerer known as Cracklin. The plot involved a little girl named Marcella whose Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls would come to life when no humans were present in her bedroom.
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The series was cancelled in 1989, although CBS aired reruns during the 1989–90 television season, and in August 1991 when Pee-Wee's Playhouse was shelved. Based on the dolls Raggedy Ann and Andy by Johnny Gruelle, the series was produced directly by CBS in honor of the 70th anniversary of the characters. Box 798, Columbia, Mo., 65205.The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy is an American animated television series that aired on CBS from September 17 to December 24, 1988. If you have an item for “What Is It?” or something about which you would like information, please send a photo and brief description to or to Antiques, Columbia Daily Tribune, P.O. Nancy Russell is a retired antiques dealer with 40 years in the business. In fact, in 2009, the Raggedy Ann Museum in Arcola, Ill., closed because of lack of visitors. Raggedy Ann is an icon to our generation, but children today are not as interested.
In good condition and with their original hearts in place, these dolls bring $15 to $50. Raggedy Ann had red-striped legs, a blue dress and stitched-on white apron. They had red yarn hair, a red triangle nose that was stitched from thread and a smile drawn on in India ink. Most of the older dolls you’ll see for sale are from this era. It was like the first dolls produced, with dark-brown hair and a painted face. The doll was distinct in that it did not have the traditional red yarn hair.
It’s hard to determine the value of an early Raggedy Ann doll today, but an old doll and book produced by the Gruelles was sold a few years ago for more than $4,000.
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hold the official license for Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy products, but thousands have been produced without permission. Today, Johnny and Myrtle’s grandson Kim Gruelle still sells official dolls and books online. The success of Ann was followed by the “birth” of her brother, Andy.
They began producing Raggedy Ann dolls in the loft of their home in Norwalk, Conn. Johnny Gruelle had wisely patented the design of the doll that had been made by his wife, in 1915. He submitted them to a publisher, and in 1918, the first stories were published using his own illustrations. This sweet tradition lives on in Raggedy dolls created today.Īfter Marcella’s tragic death as a teenager, her grieving father wrote down those Raggedy Ann stories as a tribute to her memory. The family legend says a candy conversation heart was sewn into her fabric body. Somewhere along the way, he might have invented the story of how Raggedy got her heart. He began telling his daughter a new Raggedy Ann adventure every night. The little rag doll sparked the imagination of Johnny Gruelle, who was an accomplished cartoonist.
His poems were called “The Raggedyman” and “Little Orphan Annie” and were favorites of Marcella. Raggedy got her name from the characters in two poems written by a Gruelle family friend, James Whitcomb Riley. Marcella’s mother, Myrtle, made clothes for her from patriotic fabrics of red and blue and a white apron. Marcella wanted the doll to have a face, so her father, Johnny Gruelle, painted on big black eyes, a triangle-shaped nose and a wide grin. The story goes that Raggedy Ann began as a faceless rag doll found by a little girl named Marcella in her grandmother’s attic. I haven’t written about Raggedy Ann for several years, but hers is an interesting tale.
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