00:00Here we have Molly McIntyre. She's set in 1944 on the home front during World War II.
00:05What's really iconic about Molly, first of all, her glasses.
00:09It's something that author Valerie Tripp really wanted Molly to have
00:13because Valerie always wanted glasses and braids as a young girl.
00:17It would have been a really intense process of them figuring out kind of the perfect shape
00:24for right here so that they would fit around her ears and stay in place
00:27because, of course, Pleasant envisioned this doll being played with.
00:31It wasn't meant to be up on a shelf somewhere,
00:33so it would be really important for the glasses to stay on.
00:36This argyle pattern was really common at the time,
00:39so we would have looked in catalogs and magazines to kind of arrive at that.
00:43But what's really kind of special with Molly is that autobiography and oral histories
00:48and photographs of Valerie and Pleasant's own childhoods
00:54really informed Molly's stories and her product world.
00:57This is actually Pleasant at her eighth birthday,
01:00and you can see the rick-rack trim on her dress that informed Molly's birthday dress,
01:05and just the look of the cake is so similar.
01:08Back to kind of the emotional truth of Molly's story about her father being away and being reunited,
01:16she keeps her father close in her locket in the stories.
01:19There's a photo of him.
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