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   Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American business magnate and inventor. She is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959, [ 2 ] and being co-founder of toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot , as well as serving as the company's first president from 1945 to 1975.

2. time.com › 6293762What to Know About Ruth Handler, the Creator of Barbie | TIME

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   Jul 21, 2023 · Ruth Handler, Mattel Inc. co-founder and inventor of the Barbie Doll, displays the special 40th Anniversary Barbie at a 1999 press conference in New York City.

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4. www.thoughtco.com › history-of-barbie-dolls-1991344Biography of Ruth Handler, Inventor of Barbie Dolls - ThoughtCo

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   Aug 2, 2024 · Fast Facts: Ruth Handler. Known For: Handler founded the toy company Mattel with her husband and invented the Barbie doll. Born: November 4, 1916 in Denver, Colorado. Parents: Jacob and Ida Mosko. Died: April 27, 2002 in Los Angeles, California. Spouse: Elliot Handler (m. 1938-2002)

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   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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6. www.kveller.com › the-jewish-story-of-barbiesThe Jewish Story of Barbie's Inventor, Ruth Handler - Kveller

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   Jul 19, 2023 · In the new “Barbie” movie, directed by Greta Gerwig, Handler, who died of colon cancer in 2002, is played by another Jewish icon: Rhea Perlman. She is reunited with the doll that changed her life at the beach, in a Michaelangelo-esque scene in which the creator touches their creation. “Humans have only one ending.

7. www.biography.com › inventors › a44446358Who Created Barbie? Meet Mattel Cofounder Ruth Handler

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   Jul 21, 2023 · Ruth—born Ruth Mosko on November 4, 1916, in Denver—moved to California at age 19 and married her high school sweetheart, Elliot Handler, in 1938. Their partnership marked the beginning of a ...

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   • Ruth Handler Is the Key to Barbie. What To Know About the Doll’s Controversial Founder Ruth Handler, Mattel Inc. co-founder and inventor of the Barbie Doll, displays the special 40th Anniversary Barbie at a 1999 press conference in New York City. Matt Campbell/AFP via Getty Images

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   Who are Ruth and Elliot Handler?

   • Ruth and Elliot Handler co-founded Mattel, which created some of the biggest-selling toys in American history, including Barbie dolls. (AP) Within three years, the young couple — along with their friend Harold Matson (the Matt of Mattel) — would form one of the biggest toy brands in the world.

   Who created the Barbie doll? The dramatic rise and fall of Ruth Handler

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   Did Ruth Handler live a life from breast to breast?

   • According to the Los Angeles Times, she was fond of saying, “I’ve lived my life from breast to breast.” In the Barbie movie, the Ruth Handler role is a spiritual one. She shows up in a retro kitchen randomly tucked away in Mattel headquarters to comfort Barbie during a moment of existential crisis.

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   What happened to Ruth Handler & Elliot?

   • She died in 2002 and Elliot in 2011. Mattel and Barbie live on, however, its earnings reaching a five-year high in the first quarter of 2019, and Barbie continues to prosper, with sales up 12%. Yet on the 60th anniversary of her creation, Ruth Handler’s contributions aren’t as well-known as they should be.

   The real story of the Barbie doll: strong female leadership behind the

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   Is handler a real person?

   • She first appears as a mysterious woman in a 1950s-style kitchen tucked away inside Mattel’s headquarters. Later, the film reveals that Handler is in fact the creator of Barbie and a God-like figure to Margot Robbie’s character, one of many Barbies who resides in idyllic Barbie Land.

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   Did Ruth Handler have kids?

   • Ruth Handler created a doll that was meant to let little girls imagine a future that wasn’t solely limited to being a mother, but a working woman. She was a nurse. An astronaut. A teacher. And in the years since her invention, she’s never gotten married, never had kids.

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9. theconversation.com › the-real-story-of-the-barbieThe real story of the Barbie doll: strong female leadership ...

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   Jun 13, 2019 · The first part of Ruth Handler’s life is a succession of challenges. Born Ruth Moskowicz in Denver, Colorado, in 1916, she and her family were Polish Jews who had earlier immigrated to the ...