Shailene Woodley, Olivia Rodrigo and extra stars have been American Women lengthy before they became Hollywood A-listers.
The beloved toy brand — which was initially owned by Nice Firm earlier than Mattel purchased the rights to the property in 1998 — was identified for its vary of history-inspired dolls that have been set in varied many years in the US.
Victorian preteen Samantha Parkington was the primary character to get the film remedy with The Carrie Diaries’ AnnaSophia Robb portraying the titular position within the 2004 vacation flick. Woodley, for her half, was the next starlet to lead an American Woman movie the next 12 months, enjoying Pioneer-era Felicity Merriman in Felicity: An American Woman Journey.
The American Woman motion pictures — all direct-to-DVD productions or net sequence — every spotlight a unique doll’s story. Rodrigo, for her half, landed her first major acting role as “Woman of the 12 months” Grace Thomas in An American Woman: Grace Stirs Up Success.
Black-ish alum Marsai Martin later introduced doll Melody Ellison to life in her personal American Woman film, which was set towards the civil rights motion in Alabama within the Sixties.
“Earlier than I shot the film, I used to be not conscious of a number of the issues that my grandparents needed to undergo simply due to the colour of their pores and skin,” Martin, then 12, advised CelebSecrets.com in October 2016, referring to the racial inequality of the period. “Hopefully this film will give youngsters, mother and father and grandparents a possibility to speak concerning the previous, so we don’t repeat these errors sooner or later.”
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