Simon and Schuster (books and other media) - Present.

2012–present (exclusive plush doll license)

Hasbro/ Playskool 1983–Present (Master License).

MollyE's Doll Outfitters (without permission) 1935-1938.

In 1935 Volland ceased operation and Ann and Andy were made under Gruelle's permission by Exposition Dolls, and without permission (during legal limbo) by MollyE's Dolls, resulting in Gruelle v (Mollye) Goldman. Over 75,000 dolls were made for Volland, a Gruelle book publisher, by the Non-Breakable Toy Co. Raggedy Ann dolls were originally handmade. Nonetheless, that myth led the anti-vaccination movement to adopt Raggedy Ann as a symbol, though Marcella died from an infected vaccination, not from the side effects of the vaccination itself.

Patent office the same month as Marcella's death. He used to get ideas from watching her.'Īdditionally, Gruelle did not create Raggedy Ann as a tribute to his daughter following her death at 13 from an infected vaccination Hall notes his patent application for the doll was already in progress, and the artist received final approval by the U.S. He wrote the stories around some of the things she did. He remembered it when he saw her play dolls. Johnny Gruelle 'kept in his mind until we had Marcella. The couple's daughter, Marcella, had not yet been born when Gruelle found the doll, Myrtle Gruelle continued. He said then that the doll would make a good story.'

While he was rummaging around for it, he found an old rag doll his mother had made for his sister.

As Myrtle Gruelle recalled, 'There was something he wanted from the attic. In reality, as Gruelle's wife Myrtle told Hall that it was Johnny who retrieved a long-forgotten, homemade rag doll from the attic of his parents' Indianapolis home sometime around the turn of the 20th century. Hall says the date of this supposed occurrence is given as early as 1900 and as late as 1914, with the locale variously given as suburban Indianapolis, Indiana, downtown Cleveland, Ohio, or rural Connecticut. He then combined the names of two James Whitcomb Riley poems, ' The Raggedy Man' and ' Little Orphant Annie' and suggested calling the doll Raggedy Ann. Hall notes that according to oft-repeated myth, Gruelle's daughter Marcella brought from her grandmother's attic a faceless doll on which the artist drew a face, and that Gruelle suggested that Marcella's grandmother sew a shoe button for a missing eye. What makes this even more intriguing is that fact that Johnny Gruelle, either unwittingly or with the great sense of humor he was known for, initiated many of these legends, a number of which are continuously repeated as the factual history of Raggedy Ann and Andy. found themselves at the center of several legend cycles - groups of stories that, while containing kernels of truth, are more myth than they are history. Johnny Gruelle biographer and Raggedy Ann historian Patricia Hall notes that the dolls have

Marcella raggedy ann story 1929