Barbara Millicent Roberts, better known as Barbie, made her debut on March 9, 1959, as a groundbreaking adult-bodied fashion doll. Conceived by Ruth Handler and inspired by the German Bild Lilli, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A photo of Barbie creator Ruth Handler is shown next to one of the first editions of the doll in June 2015 at the American Enterprise exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History ...