Marie Osmond Dolls

Marie Osmond dolls are a best seller line of cloth and porcelain dolls, and very well known mainly through their advertisement-based programs on the shopping channel QVC.

The founder and proprietor of the company, Marie Osmond, is a rare example of those few people who have managed to become rich and famous in two very different walks of life. A member of a select club that includes such names as Ronald Reagan (film and television actor and also the 40th president of the United States) and Omar Sharif (famous Hollywood actor as well as internationally acclaimed contract bridge player), Marie Osmond was renowned entertainer, singer and actress in her youth before she became the founder and owner of this top-selling line of artistic premium-quality dolls which use her name as an unofficial trademark.

In the numerous interviews she has given to newspapers, television channels, magazines and websites, Marie has repeatedly cited her family and bringing up as providing the background for the early love and fascination she felt for dolls. She was the only girl child in a family with nine children, so she was being gifted different types of dolls all the time, by family and friends. Also, a girl child has her own way of growing up, her own world of the imagination, her own way of looking at things. Having hardly anyone to share it with, Marie Osmond turned to her dolls for companionship. More than four decades later, this hasn't changed a bit.

Unlike many other celebrities who allow companies, in exchange for hefty fees, to use their names to endorse certain product lines, Marie Osmond had to prove to the public that she was genuinely a passionate collector and creator of dolls. The television was central to her first career, and she decided to use the same medium to project the truth about her calling. Her appearance on QVC gave her an opportunity to do that.

Not only is she personally involved with designing and producing her dolls, but the very first of them were created by her own hands. Marie is an amateur sculptor, and some of the earliest figures she sculpted included a doll representing her mother Olive, who understood and inspired Marie's passion. The 'Olive May' doll, as it was called, was premiered on TV, and sold beyond all expectations.

For Marie, doll making and doll collection are all about personal perceptions, memories and imagination. She likes to listen to her customers' feelings and stories, and what memories they have associated with their collections of dolls. To her, every doll is an individual, with a distinct personality and association. None of her creations are run-of-the-mill, but each is inspired by some creative impulse in her. One general inspirational background to her creations, she claims, is her obsession with fabrics of different kinds. Of her many best selling series, many are themed around certain types of fabrics, and named cleverly after the constituent material.

Most Marie Osmond dolls are designed by Marie herself, and some of them are even today sculpted by her. Among these are the best seller series like Adora Belle, Baby Adora Belle, Remember Me etc. Many of her own creations have a tiny dot near the left eye, and Marie says this is supposed to represent a similar beauty spot that she herself has.