Before Barbie, there was Madame Alexander. Founded in 1923 by Beatrice Alexander, the Madame Alexander Doll Company released some of the first officially licensed toys replicating characters from ...

Whether you’re wondering if you’re sitting on a goldmine, or looking to hit the jackpot on the local estate sale circuit, here are the Madame Alexander dolls that are most in demand among collectors ...

For more than 73 years, Madame Alexander dolls have provided enormous pleasure. The small-scale, cherubic-looking dolls, with classic hairdos, pursed lips, large eyes, tiny noses and period attire, ...

As a child Beatrice Alexander Behrman watched as brokenhearted girls brought their damaged dolls to her father's doll hospital for repair. She vowed then to one day make an unbreakable doll. In 1923, ...

or a long, long time, it has seemed that Madame Alexander would be as immortal as her dolls. Just last spring, at 93, the grande dame of the American dollmaking industry managed four large-scale ...