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American Girl Movie | American Girl Wiki | Fandom
1 month ago - The movies for Melody, Maryellen, ... rereleased on the American Girl YouTube channel for free in February 2024. ... Addy: An American Girl Story, a live action play based on Addy Walker's stories....
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Addy: An American Girl Story
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IMDb
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American Girl Dolls: The Action Movie with Anna Chlumsky (Video 2015) ⭐ 6.2 | Comedy
June 30, 2015 - American Girl Dolls: The Action Movie with Anna Chlumsky: Directed by Elise Holowicki. With Anna Chlumsky, Amber Stevens West, Esther Povitsky, Chelsea Kane. Finally an action-packed, gritty reboot starring all your favorite American Girl dolls.
Release date   Jun 30, 2015
Rating: 6.2/10 ​ - ​ 25 votes
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Reddit
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r/americangirl on Reddit: American Girl Historical Dolls That Have Their Own Movies vs. The Ones That Don't
February 8, 2024 -

Kaya DOES NOT have her own movie.

Felicity Merriman DOES have her own movie, and her best friend, Elizabeth Cole is a side character: Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, which is a live action.

Caroline Abbott DOES NOT have her own movie.

Josefina Montoya DOES NOT have her own movie.

Marie-Grace Gardner and Cecile Rey DO NOT have their own movie.

Kirsten Larson DOES NOT have her own movie.

Addy Walker DOES NOT have her own movie.

Samantha Parkington DOES have her own movie, and her best friend, Nellie O'Malley, who becomes her adopted sister, is a side character: Samantha: An American Girl Holiday, which is a live action.

Rebecca Rubin DOES NOT have her own movie.

Claudie Wells DOES NOT have her own movie.

Kit Kittredge DOES have her own movie, and her best friend, Ruthie Smithens, is a side character: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, which is a live action.

Nanea Mitchell DOES NOT have her own movie.

Molly McIntire DOES have her own movie, and her English friend, Emily Bennett, is a side character: An American Girl on the Home Front, which is a live action.

Maryellen Larkin DOES have 2 of her own movies: Maryellen & The Brightest Star (YouTube Short Movie) and An American Girl Story- Maryellen 1955: Extraordinary Christmas (Amazon Special), which are both live action.

Melody Ellison DOES have her own movie: An American Girl Story- Melody 1963: Love Has to Win, which is a live action.

Julie Albright DOES have 2 of her own movies : And the Tiara Goes To...(A Julie Albright Movie) (YouTube Short Movie), when her best friend, Ivy Ling, is just a side character, and An American Girl Story- Ivy and Julie 1976- A Happy Balance, which has both Ivy and Julie as the main characters, which are both live action.

Courtney Moore DOES have her own movie, Meet Courtney: An American Girl, which is a stop motion.

Isabel and Nicki Hoffman DO NOT have their own movie, but they do have their own cartoon YouTube series from the American Girl channel: Isabel and Nicki's Super Duper Twin Adventures.

Which American Girl historical movie was your fave, and which historical doll who doesn't have their own movie should've had their own movie?

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Amazon
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Amazon.com: Addy: An American Girl/Boxed Set (American Girl Collection): 9781562470876: Porter, Connie: Books
This boxed set contains one of each of the Addy paperback titles: Meet Addy, Addy Learns a Lesson, Addy's Surprise, Happy Birthday, Addy!, Addy Saves the Day, and Changes for Addy.
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Fandom
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Meet Addy | American Girl Wiki - Fandom
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American Girl
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Addy Walker 1864 | Historical Characters | American Girl
Addy Walker™ is a courageous girl determined to be free in Philadelphia in 1864. Explore this historical character’s story and collection, including her beautiful doll, clothing, and accessories. ... As part of the American Girl® historical characters line that returned for our 35th ...
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Reddit
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r/americangirl on Reddit: About Addy.
January 30, 2024 -

Hey Everyone,

I just got into a little kerfuffle in the comments of TikTok about Addy and wanted to know what y’all think. Before I start, yes AG should absolutely diversify the historical line more but I think that what they did with Addy is a great way to introduce young children to what happened with slavery and the struggles that even freed slaves & African Americans faced. I think if they didn’t have a doll representing this part of history it would be a huge disservice. Anyway here was the conversation, which was made on a satire video about doll brands having a lack of diversity.

Original Comment: “American Girl doll Abby was pretty much like this lol I used to read the catalog and damn near everything was slave themed” My Comment: “Everything was slave themed? No. She and her Mom escape slavery in the first book and the rest of her story is their journey/struggle in freedom” OC’s Reply: “The fact that you even typed that trying to disprove my statement is baffling, yiu can't be that dense”

So like am I incorrect? I had Addy growing up and she has always been one of my favorites and one of the reasons I’m really into that era of history so maybe I’m biased.

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Wikipedia
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American Girl (film series) - Wikipedia
November 20, 2025 - With the help of her best friend, Julie Albright, Ivy makes a tough call on two important events in her life when her gymnastics tournament and family's Chinese New Year dinner land on the same day. The movie An American Girl Story - Ivy & Julie 1976: A Happy Balance was released by Amazon ...
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Fandom
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Addy Walker | American Girl Wiki | Fandom
1 month ago - Addy Walker is the fifth Historical Character, representing the Civil War Era. Addy was released in Fall 1993 and was part of the BeForever collection and the 35th Anniversary Special Edition Rerelease. Addy Walker is an...
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Tumblr
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American Girl Central — So as I’m still salty about Addy most likely...
June 11, 2017 - Just looking at the newer ones, Gabriela’s main focus is Poetry and Student Council, Z just likes to make movies, and Tenney gets a freaking record deal at the age of 12-13! How many little girls can relate to getting a record deal? Probably the darkest storyline would be Chrissa getting bullied, which is NOTHING compared to Addy having to escape slavery.
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Scary Mommy
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A Live-Action American Girl Doll Movie Is Coming – Prepare For All The Nostalgia
February 16, 2019 - Per Mattel and MGM, a live-action American Girl movie is in the works.
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American Girl
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Meet Addy Walker™ | American Girl®
Explore the world of our Historical Character, Addy Walker. Uncover her inspiring story, discover fun facts, and shop her collection!
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Wikipedia
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List of American Girl characters - Wikipedia
May 5, 2013 - Kit's core series of books was written by Valerie Tripp and illustrated by Walter Rane. A feature film Kit Kittredge: An American Girl was released to theaters on July 2, 2008, starring Abigail Breslin in the title role. Many new items were added to Kit's collection as product tie-ins to the movie.
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Amazon
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Meet Addy: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection Book 1): Porter, Connie, Rosales, Melodye, Taylor, Dahl: 9781562470753: Amazon.com: Books
Meet Samantha (American Girl: Samantha, 1904) Susan S. Adler · Paperback · Addy Learns a Lesson: A School Story (American Girl Collection) Connie Porter · Paperback · Meet Josefina, an American Girl (American Girl Collection) Valerie Tripp ...
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Literary Hub
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Literary Hub » Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll
June 5, 2025 - I was a young child in 1993 when American Girl released its first Black doll, Addy Walker. Though I had heard of American Girl dolls, they weren’t on my radar, nor that of my friends, until we saw a girl who looked like us.
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Reddit
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r/americangirl on Reddit: American girl movies
May 22, 2025 -

I LOVED the historical doll movies as a kid my absolute favourite being Samantha’s movie, still watch it every now and then. It has got me thinking, I wonder why Kristen or Addy didn’t get a movie. A movie about Kaya would’ve been really interesting as well. Do you think this is something American girl potentially missed the mark on not continuing to make these movies?

I know Melody kinda got a movie but it didn’t feel the same as the older ones. I learnt a lot from these movies, like the orphan train, dresses made out of chicken food bags, victory gardens just to name a few, I’ve even gone on to research more about the history as an adult. It’s a shame we didn’t get more movies like those ones.

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I think the historical AG characters they had at that time don't lend themselves to Best Friend dolls in the same way, and the point of making an American Girl movie is so you can sell dolls. Kaya's sister, Speaking Rain, would look just like Kaya does. She'd have the same face mold, wear her hair the same way, and dress in very similar clothing. Most people don't want two nearly-identical dolls - especially kids, who might only get one or two dolls in a year. (Also, the Nez Perce people being okay with the Kaya doll and books doesn't necessarily mean they'd also be okay with their culture being portrayed in a movie.) The depiction of Kirsten's friend Singing Bird is kind of racist in the original books. It's racist in a way that was very normal in media from the 1980s, but as a character she's still kind of just there to further Kirsten's story, and the optics of releasing her just to be an accessory for the blonde settler doll aren't great. Additionally, you'd need permission from the tribe, and there's every possibility they would have said no (or that they were approached and did say no), The recent re-released edition of Kirsten Learns a Lesson is a bit better and fixes some of the more egregious stuff. Josefina's Pueblo friend, Mariana, has some of the same problems as Singing Bird and my understanding is that even in her brief depiction there were cultural inaccuracies. It's possible you could do Josefina's 12-year-old sister Clara, but while they've done a handful of older characters now, they weren't doing that back in the 00's when the movies were being made. She'd mostly wear a lot of the same stuff Josefina does, and even with only Josefina on her own there seems to be a limit on how many camisa-and-skirt outfits parents are willing to buy for AG prices. Also Josefina's books are mostly about her family healing from the grief of her mother's death, in a way that doesn't lend themselves as well to a 90 minute movie that's trying to draw in kids who are either too young to read or who aren't good enough at reading to get through the American Girl books, so that they'll beg their parents for dolls. (Rescuing Nellie! Horse adventures! Thwarting a crime! Practicing for the big performance!) I've seen a lot of people say they thought Josefina's books were boring, and while I don't agree with that, I do think they have less . . . spectacle than some of the other AG books do. Even Sarah - and look, I love Sarah, I have a Sarah Moore doll - has the problem of being even poorer than Addy's family. You can't really sell a bunch of fancy dresses for her, and you can't really change the ending of her story without cheapening it. The point of the role Sarah plays in Changes for Addy is showing that even though things end up MOSTLY alright for Addy's family at the end, slavery tore families apart and the long-reaching consequences of slavery didn't end when slavery did. And the other available option would be Harriet, who's just awful to Addy and Sarah. (I do think that she's why we eventually get Cecile later on, who can have fancy dresses but is also a nice person.) Additionally, the Recession happened.
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Kit’s movie was incredibly well done for what it was, so I can only assume that Mattel has the numbers to justify the decision to not do another theatrical release. I’d have loved a Rebecca movie. NYC and Coney Island in particular were so cool in that era.
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Toysandcollectiblesmuseum
toysandcollectiblesmuseum.org › articles › addy-walker-the-making-of-a-character
Addy Walker: The Making of a Character — The Changnon Family Museum of Toys and Collectibles
October 2, 2023 - Perhaps because of this, Rowland put together an advisory board of black scholars and historians to advise on Addy’s creation. This was an unusual step: While all the historical dolls have been developed with the assistance of outside experts to ensure accuracy, Addy was the first doll to have a “more formalized advisory board,” American Girl representative Susan Jevens told me.