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 ...

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 ...

While Ruth Handler's Barbie revolutionized the toy industry in the U.S. in 1959 by introducing a doll of a grown-up woman instead of a baby or young girl, a European toymaker actually beat the Mattel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Barbie doll in black and white striped swimsuit, Image 2 shows Barbie doll in ...

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 ...

Ruth Handler's creation of Barbie was inspired by her daughter's preference for adult-shaped dolls, leading to a revolutionary fashion doll. After her breast cancer diagnosis, Ruth Handler founded ...

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 ...