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 ...

That she is sequestered away in the Mattel building is one of the many fictionalized aspects of Barbie. Handler, who is played by Rhea Perlman in the film, passed away in 2002. She never, of course, ...

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 ...

The Barbie movie hit theaters last Friday after literally years of anticipation, and people are still clamoring for tickets a week later. The movie of the summer (sorry, Oppenheimer fans) raked in US ...

LOS ANGELES - Ruth Handler, who created Barbie, the world's most popular doll, has died. She was 85. Handler, who also co-founded the Mattel toy company, died at Century City Hospital on Saturday ...

"Mattel had spent years obscuring Barbie's backstory," Hitt writes. According to the new book, Barbie is actually a "knockoff" whose origins and later production are marred by accusations of theft and ...