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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.
Dolly Dingle. Grace Drayton (née Gebbie, also known as Grace Wiederseim; October 14, 1878 – January 31, 1936) was an illustrator of children's books, fashion pages, and magazine covers.
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 September 2020 a collector’s line of six Sindy dolls was introduced by the Sindy Collectors Club. Inspired by the original Pedigree dolls, each of the six dolls wears a modern interpretation of the fashions of original Sindy doll releases from 1963: Shopping Look, Weekender, City Chic, Dream Date, Skater Girl, and Sleepy Time. Each of the ...
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.
For boys, the Johnny Lightning (launched in 1969) and Johnny Seven O.M.A toys were the most popular; for girls, the Dawn Doll. Deluxe Reading dolls were sold in the 1950s–1970s through supermarkets and are often referred to as Grocery Store Dolls. They were an inexpensive alternative to department store dolls, although of similar quality.
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.