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Kewpie doll

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Kewpie doll
designed by Rose O’Neill and modeled on her baby brother; millions were made (starting about 1910). [Am. Hist.: WB, 5: 240–241]
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Kidman plays Isabel, who begins the film as a breathy kewpie doll (Kidman must have watched ``The Seven-Year Itch'' for inspiration), a naive witch who comes to the San Fernando Valley wanting only to be normal and to find a man who needs her for herself and not her otherworldly powers.
But there were also plenty of oddities -- a skittering angel who might have escaped from Balanchine's Nutcracker; a dynamic, mambo-dancing Kewpie doll wearing a shift with the rising sun; a bodysuited dream girl; a pair of mad, aerobic Pierrots; music by Chopin; a bang-up tango finale.
Millie's new best friend and fellow tenant at the Hotel Priscilla is a refined Kewpie doll from California, Miss Dorothy Brown (Diana Kaarina).
 
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