Fortune Pam, Ninette, and LustreCreme Starlet
  
Photos: My Collection
Fortune Pam (& Ninette & Starlet): Pam is the best known, but Ninette and Starlet were the same basic doll - just different clothes and packaging. They share the same face, body, and legs with the Virga & PMA dolls. Fortune dolls, however, have different arms. Fortune dolls' arms are distinct, with their light coloring, individual fingers, and "Peg" or "Tube" hook attachment.
Her arms are lighter-colored than her legs and torso. The plastic material of the arms is softer than the usual "hard plastic." (In fact, dogs LOVE to sink their teeth in it! Keep your dolls out of Fido's reach!)Her fingers are separate and individual. Her arms are have the tube hook attachment.
 Her feet are molded-on T-strap shoes.
See:
DOLLS WITH MOLDED-ON T-STRAP SHOES And Individual Company pages: | Beehler | Fortune | PMA | Virga |  Lighter arms with a tube hook attachment are key Fortune marks |  Pam and Ninette often wore lovely outfits designed by Michele Cartier. |  Vinyl-head Pam
Like most companies, Fortune also sold Pam in a rooted-hair, vinyl-headed model. The letters "PAM" are engraved into the back of the base of the head. |  Pam was also used by the Fab Detergent and LustreCreme Shampoo companies for their 8-inch promotional doll.  | |  There were also 9-inch promotional dolls by Fab, Vel, Colgate, etc. These were the Fortune/Virga/PMA 9-inch dolls: |
Thanks to Carol Stover, and her article "The Search For an Adorable, Affordable 1950's Toddler" (Dolls: The Collectors Magazine, November 1998), for many Pam specifics. |
HERE'S A WEIRD ONE: 
A Mint-In-Box "Pam" made from the Ginger mold.Fortune marketed a doll from the Ginger mold, dressed in Michele Cartier outfits, as Fortune Pam "Little Miss Muffet". Large-eyed Gingers were marketed as "Tea Time" Pam. How's this? Fortune marketed Jeanette for Cosmopolitan. (Jeanette was Cosmopolitan's lesser-quality large-eyed Ginger.) Cosmopolitan was quite liberal with its sharing of the Ginger molds. Fortune apparently bought and used Gingers and Jeanettes to fill Pam boxes when supplies of Pams ran low. Further intermixing: The 1956 Woolworth's Christmas Catalog advertised a doll with Pam face and Ginger body! Cosmopolitan filed in 1956 for use of the Pam logo and trademark. This indicates that Cosmopolitan itself may have directly used their Ginger dolls for a line of Pams, despite the Fortune name on the boxes. (This may explain the many dolls that show up on Ebay titled "Cosmopolitan Pam") |
