They have Nick Cave dolls now? I want one!

Three Russian girls made a Nick Cave doll and presented it to him in 1998.
The pictures are from their website, which can be found here. The website looks like it has been abandoned, which is a shame because it used to feature photos of their other dolls too.

I am in the process of tracking down these artists.

Here's a couple of more shots of the doll :

Show Biz Babies

Made by Hasbro in the 1960's.
Sets included Mamas & Papas, The Monkees and a few other artists.
I'm dying to find Cass Elliot and Peter Tork dolls for my own collection.

Get more info from
- Dollreference.com

Twin Peaks

The show scared me when I was a child and then fascinated me as I grew older. It featured such a great deal of characters, everyone had a secret or three.

And there should have been action figures.
Gosh, I mean, I'd want one of Laura, Dale, Johnny Horne (with headdress), Audrey Horne, Josie, The Giant, The Man From Another Place, Dr. Jacoby, Deputy Hawk, Major Briggs, Annie, Bobby and Maddy.

Don't get your hopes up too high. The above figure is not real. It was created by NormMac for a Worth1000 Photoshop Celebrity Toys contest.

Gotta keep on hoping. Maybe they could release some 20th Anniversary Twin Peaks action figures in 2010.

James Dean

Mattel has a few Dean dolls

And then there's the Hot Toys figure that costs a fortune but looks pretty fine.

I wish there was a Sal Mineo / Plato doll to go along with the rebel Dean one.

If you want to sing out, sing out !

Actor Bud Cort with Harold and Maude dolls. The photo was taken by Robert Trachtenberg and it accompanied an interview in Vanity Fair back in the day.

Cort is a fantastic man and you should most definitely visit The Unoffical Bud Cort Fan Site, from which I found the photo in the first place.

Superstar !

Before Todd Haynes went on to make films like Velvet Goldmine and I'm Not Here, he made Superstar - the Karen Carpenter Story (1987).
Starring Barbie dolls.

It's good and you can watch it here.

If you have seen Velvet Goldmine, it's interesting to note that the doll who plays the Carpenters manager/record executive looks a whole lot like the character Cecil (Brian Slade's first manager, who is based on David Bowie's early manager Kenneth Pitt) in Velvet Goldmine.

Einstein-a-go-go

Magnificent Einstein marionette

baby doll

I wish I had more information on this Christina Ricci/Buffalo 66 doll.
I found the photo online a few years ago.

Twigster

damn, I said I wanted a Twiggy Ramirez doll !

sixties flashback

Yes, you're right.
Not actual dolls, more like photo montages. But they're pretty brilliant.
This was the cover of the TeenSet magazine on March, 1969.

Beth Ditto doll

As seen in the Evans label online catalog.
It looks awesome.

I couldn't find any information about it.

Cobain can you hear the spheres...

I'd been a die-hard Nirvana fan for many years and had to think long and hard about buying this one. First off; The Smells Like Teen Spirit song irritates me. Second of all, the doll's face looks nothing like Cobain's.
But I did buy it in the end and repainted it. It still looks weird so I stashed the doll into a wooden doll house on the uppermost shelf next to my Oscar Wilde and Vincent van Gogh figures.

These figures are made by NECA Toys.

Josie Baker

a 1930's Josephine Baker marionette

SAMO no

Made by Medicom.
It's about 12 inches / 30 cm tall.
It's being sold on eBay for pretty outrageous prices.
Licensed by the estate (father of-) Basquiat

Casey Niccoli

In the 1993 film Gift (that centers around the band Jane's Addiction, and most of all, the singer Perry Farrell and his then companion, the beautiful artist Casey Niccoli) there is a scene where Casey has overdosed and lies against a chair.
Behind her is a cloth doll with colored braids just like her own.
I'm not absolutely sure but I assume this was a portrait doll made to look like her.

Dave Navarro doll

Made by the ToyMangler.

5-4-3-2-1-Dire Straits are GO!

The Dire Straits video for Calling Elvis was released in 1991 and it was directed by the legendary Gerry Anderson, father to one of my favorite tv series of all time, Thunderbirds.
The video features Mark Knopfler & Co. as marionettes, with some cameos from the Tracy family.

sandbox not included

This fellow used to be available from the official Wilson website but I couldn't find it from the store today.

don't whip it

There appears to be several Devo dolls out there, but they all share a flaw : their hats don't fit. I had fun reading all those Amazon reviews about them.

kooks

Go over to 5Years.com to read about Ziggy dolls.
It's a super rad site in other ways too, if Bowie happens to be your mainman.

Baby, you're so vicious

the most impressive Sid doll is the one on the cover of the My Way single

this looks way too computerized

these two are by Medicom

ps. I'd buy a Nancy Spungen doll if there was one

Boy George doll

not rock.. ice

bet you'd play with it too

Cher. By Mattel.

Lotte Pritzel (1887-1952)

Lotte Pritzel was a German artist who made meticulously detailed wax dolls for collectors. Her subjects ranged from public figures to fairytale characters.
I originally heard about Pritzel while reading about the amazing German dancer Anita Berber, who was also a subject of Lotte's art.

Here is an official website dedicated to her work :
Die Puppen der Lotte Pritzel
(in english)