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Sep 12, 2023 · In her 1994 autobiography, Dream Doll: The Ruth Handler Story, Handler wrote (via NYT): ''My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to ...
Jul 14, 2023 · In the new Barbie film, the doll's creator Ruth Handler plays a crucial role. ... she makes a quip about her real-life run-in with the law – in 1978, she had to resign from Mattel after being ...
Jul 21, 2023 · Perlman, best known as the sarcastic waitress Carla from Cheers, appears in the Greta Gerwig –directed film as Ruth Handler—a real-life legend in the toy business who helped turn Mattel into a ...
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.
Jul 21, 2023 · Enter Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman), co-founder of Mattel and the inventor of the Barbie doll. Handler died in 2002, but her ghost has been renting out an office on the 17th floor of the Mattel ...
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Jul 20, 2023 · The inspiration behind the Barbie doll. Like many renowned companies, Mattel began as a startup in a garage. In 1945, husband and wife, Ruth and Elliot Handler, teamed up with Harold “Matt ...
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Jul 26, 2023 · The youngest of 10 children of immigrant parents, Ruth Handler was fiercely independent and had the ability to dream big. Here's how she masterminded the world's most famous doll, Barbie. Ruth Handler was confident and determined on the eve of the 1959 American International Toy Fair in New York. As president of Mattel, a company founded by her ...
