# Classic Television Commercial for "The Mary Hartline Doll"

A classic 1950's television commercial for the Mary Hartline Doll, this commercial features Mary Hartline herself. The complete telecast can be found elsewhere on the Internet Archive. Mary Hartline was a popular television personality during the 1950's, with her friendly personality and sex appeal giving her appeal to many ages. She is best known for her work on "Super Circus", which is where this commercial came from, although she also hosted the extremely short lived program "The Mary Hartline Show". Almost completely forgotten today, this appealing lady was, for a few years, a major television star. Examples of her television work are stored at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, The Paley Center for Media, the Ira Gallen Archive, and maybe a few other archives too. As for the commercial, well Mary Hartline was never at her best during commercials, she was best at comedy segments, but this is still an appealing commercial. The product though is not exactly one of the better fifties toys, though it does look like fun.

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1954
- Runtime: 1 min
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Mary_Hartline_doll)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader marks it public domain, and the US Copyright Office's records do not settle that it is (a record that may be another film's, a film first published abroad, a year when renewal was automatic, or a country they do not name). Unclear is not offered.