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Jan 28, 2020 · Ruth Handler (November 4, 1916–April 27, 2002) was an American inventor who created the iconic Barbie doll in 1959 (the doll was named after Handler's daughter Barbara). Barbie was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City. The Ken doll was named after Handler's son and was introduced two years after Barbie debuted.
Jul 14, 2023 · Ruth Handler and her husband Elliot founded the toy company Mattel in a garage workshop in Southern California in 1945; she came up with the idea for the Barbie doll, which was launched in 1959.
Aug 5, 2023 · Ruth Handler was the ambitious career woman who created Barbie and changed America's toy industry. But a tax fraud scandal ultimately saw her forced out of the company she co-founded, Mattel.
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May 17, 2018 · Ruth Handler. American businessperson Ruth Handler (1916–2002) changed the face of the toy industry with her introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959. Co–founder of the Mattel toy company, Handler was also noted for her marketing innovations. She later went on to a successful second career in the prosthetic breast business.
Apr 29, 2002 · Ruth Handler, creator of Barbie Doll, dies at age 85; pioneering creation in 1959 became one of world's best-selling toys and transformed sleepy Mattel Inc, which she co-founded with husband, into ...
Ruth Moskowicz was born into a family of Russian Jewish immigrants in Denver, Colorado in 1916. She married her high school boyfriend, an artistic young man named Elliot Handler, and they moved to ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Ruth Handler, née Moskowicz, was born on November 4, 1916, in Denver, Colorado, per PBS. According to the Jewish Women's Archive , Handler's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, and she ...
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