Barbie — and the doll's creator, Ruth Handler — are both having a moment. The company Handler co-created, Mattel, and the toys it manufactured are all household names, but Ruth's story isn't as well ...

Barbie’s grown-up female features stunned the doubtful male-run toy-industry establishment. Yet Barbie proved one of the most successful toys – one of the most successful consumer products – in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Somehow, my life has revolved around breasts’: Barbie inventor Ruth Handler in 1999, and Margot Robbie in the new ‘Barbie’ movie ...

I’m not a Barbie fan. She made me and my friends feel bad about ourselves for being built like real girls, back in the day. I only reluctantly watched the movie, once it was free on a streaming ...

(CNN) — If you’re one of many who go to a cool movie theater this weekend to catch a screening of “Barbie” (or perhaps, a double-header of “Barbenheimer”), you’ll almost certainly wonder about the ...

The Barbie movie is filled with well-known characters (I'm looking at you Barbie and Ken) but there are also quite a few names and faces that don't totally ring a bell. If you're interested to learn ...

Samantha is a Senior Writer for Collider, with a deep admiration for the arts, a vast amount of unpopular opinions, and an ever-expanding knowledge of all things TV and Film. Unafraid to speak her ...

“Ruth Handler actually gave me one of the first Barbies. She was a neighbor. It was the first platinum Barbie, in a red bathing suit,” Anderson recently shared with Elle. Of course, Anderson rose to ...

The fictional Ruth Handler jokes in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" about getting in trouble with the IRS. The real-life Handler was indicted for conspiracy and making false financial statements to the SEC.

Barbie wasn’t like other dolls in the toybox. When her controversially adult form – pink lips, dinky waist, big breasts – hit store shelves in 1959, she revolutionised play. Until then, “dolls” had ...