Commentary: In all, 350,000 Barbies were initially sold. Business was so brisk Mattel couldn't keep up with demand for the ...

Inventor-designer Jack Ryan took it from there, reimagining the doll until it became the figure we know today. Both blonde ...

Ruth Handler opened Mattel in 1945 with her husband Elliot and Harold Matson — the name Mattel comes from Matt plus L. The Barbie movie presents Ruth as Barbie's clear creator. The messier reality ...

Barbie, the iconic doll created by Ruth Handler for Mattel, debuted on March 9, 1959 at the New York Toy Fair, going on to become one of the most influential toys in history.

The beloved toy debuted in 1959.

Once again, Schaumburg Chapter P-LK member Lynn Rymarz resurrected a persona from among the 40 characters in her storytelling book and entertained a crowd at the Schaumburg Township Library Aug. 27.

Who was Ruth Handler? Why, the inventor of the Barbie doll, who happened to be born on this day in 1916. According to Wikipedia, Handler adapted the Barbie doll from the German “Bild Lilli” doll ...

Can you make a decision? In the mid 1950’s Ruth Handler, the owner of a small toy company in Southern California received a phone call. The man on the line explained that ABC-TV (barely seven years ...

Best known for creating Barbie—the high-heeled doll whose careers have included astronaut, dolphin trainer and presidential candidate—Handler’s plastic innovations didn’t end with the beloved icon. In ...

It’s Barbie’s world, people, and we’re just living in it. Or, wait—maybe it’s the other way around? This summer’s much-anticipated feature, Barbie, explores what might happen if the real world ...

Queen Mary — or more fully, Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom and British Dominions and Empress of India — had the ...