{"id":31085,"date":"2023-07-27T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31085"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:44:02","slug":"barbie-comes-to-abingdon-vintage-dolls-and-live-action-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31085","title":{"rendered":"Barbie comes to Abingdon: Vintage Dolls and Live-Action Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read in yesterday&#8217;s post that in 1923 the film <em>The Sheik<\/em> was in Abingdon, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023072702.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA hundred years later, vintage Barbie dolls have been spotted in charity shop windows in Abingdon ahead of the first showing of the live-action Barbie film in the Abbey Cinema on July 28, 2023. The iconic 11-inch plastic doll, first released by Mattel in 1959, has become a cultural phenomenon. Barbie&#8217;s boyfriend, Ken, was introduced in 1961, followed by a host of friends and family members.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023072701.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe live-action film is directed by Greta Gerwig and stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. The film follows Barbie as she leaves Barbieland for an adventure in the real world where she meets various new people and learns about herself and the world around her.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023072704.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nTo celebrate Barbie&#8217;s breakout film, the Abbey Cinema will serve Pink Proseccos and Double Pink G&amp;Ts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have read in yesterday&#8217;s post that in 1923 the film The Sheik was in Abingdon, starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres. A hundred years later, vintage Barbie dolls have been spotted in charity shop windows in Abingdon ahead of the first showing of the live-action Barbie film in the Abbey Cinema on July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}