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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.
Dress-up is a children's game in which costumes or clothing are put on a person or on a doll, for role-playing or aesthetics purposes. In the UK the game is called dressing up. In the mid-1990s, dress-up games also became a video game genre in which customizing a virtual character's appearance is the primary focus.
In February 2017, American Girl released a new line of 18-inch dolls called contemporary characters. The first doll in the line was Tenney Grant, a young aspiring country singer, and songwriter. Other dolls of the modern line include Logan, Tenney's bandmate and American Girl's first-ever boy doll, [a] and Z Yang, who is interested in ...
American Girl has introduced a new historical character, Claudie Wells.Her story, created in collaboration with New York Times best-selling novelist Brit Bennett, author of the Vanishing Half ...
Ideal produced over 200 variations of dolls throughout the composition era. [2] In 1914, Ideal had a boy doll launched named the Uneeda Kid, after a biscuit company. [29] [28] It was patented on December 8, 1914. [30] The 15-inch boy doll wore a blue and white bloomer suit and held a box of Uneeda Biscuits under his arm. [31]
The first Skipper doll was released in 1964. Created as an 8-year-old character, Skipper had a notably more youthful, cherubic appearance than big sister Barbie.
The doll comes with a detailed backstory, eventually expressed in the novelization Gene Marshall, Girl Star.The character Gene Marshall was born in Cos Cob, Connecticut, in 1923, and was discovered by the filmmaker Eric von Sternberg while working in New York City as an usherette.
Dress-Up Declan, Emmie's fashion doll, visits Doc's home and as they are playing basketball, Hallie injures herself crashing into a rose bush. Luckily, Declan has a Nurse's outfit to assist Doc, but Daisy displays some chauvinism about Declan being a nurse.