Alyvia Alyn Lind
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American Girl’s ‘Maryellen 1955’: Very Careful Family Fare
A series of short films based on the American Girl dolls have been produced over the past few years. The latest carries the long-winded title An American Girl Story Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas. The title role is performed by Alyvia Alyn Lind, who played Dolly Parton in last year’s Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors. Set in the mid-1950s, we find Maryellen, one of the middle children in a large Florida family.
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'Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors' Is A Sentimental Beauty
Dolly Parton introduces Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors seated in a Christmas sleigh parked in front of a gigantic Dollywood sign. The plug for her Tennessee amusement park is justified by the fact that the commercial venture is located in the same rustic environment in which Dolly grew up, and that’s the site of this TV-movie set in 1955. The sleigh is there because Dolly clearly wants Coat of Many Colors to become a holiday tradition, even though the plot has nothing specifically to do with
