Ruth Handler is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959 and serving as the first president of Mattel, a company she co-founded with her husband Elliot Handler, from 1945 to 1973.

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with ... seen while vacationing in Switzerland.) Ruth named the doll Barbie, after her daughter. The first model went on display in March 1959 at the annual ...

Ruth Handler was born on November 4 ... In 1959, after extensive design and development, Mattel introduced the first Barbie ...

Then, following the introduction of the first Malibu Barbie ... or brunette version of the doll. Barbie was invented by American business woman, and mother, Ruth Handler. Ruth was frustrated ...

Taking place in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the historical fiction novel follows Ruth Handler — one ... the creative team for Barbie; each person was vital to the doll’s success.

Inventor Ruth Handler first introduced the pint-sized plastic doll to the world at a Toy Fair in New York City on March 9 1959. 65 years ago today, the 1st Barbie went on display at the American ...

The film spotlights the soaring success of Barbie, with sales of three hundred thousand dolls in the first year, to over two billion before Ruth Handler died. The enormous financial rewards for ...

Inventor Ruth Handler first introduced the pint-sized plastic ... retired American tennis player Billie Jean King posted a photo of her own Barbie doll to X. The 80 year-old wrote: “65 years ...