Born above her father's doll hospital in 1895 Brooklyn, it only made sense for Beatrice Alexander Behrman to go into the family business. She was 28 when she started a company that would both ...

This is no storybook castle. The nondescript brick building is wedged between a meat warehouse and an auto repair shop in Harlem, with elevated train tracks looming nearby. The old, rickety elevator ...

or a long, long time, it has seemed that Madame Alexander would be as immortal as her dolls. Just last spring, at 93, the grande dame of the American dollmaking industry managed four large-scale ...