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.

Among their first big sellers was the “Uke ... anything she wanted to be,” Handler wrote in Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler ...

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 ...

Barbie first meets Ruth while she's trying to escape ... which is exactly what the real Ruth Handler wanted for her doll. Ruth Handler is the American inventor who created Barbie in 1959, and ...

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

In 1959, Ruth Handler — co-founder of the toy giant Mattel — was watching her daughter, Barbara, play with paper dolls. That moment sparked the creation of the very first Barbie doll (named ...

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 ...

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 ...