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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.
Ruth Handler died at the age of 85 on April 27, 2002 due to complications from colon surgery. Elliot Handler outlived his wife by nine years, and died in 2011 at the age of 95.
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 ...
This summer's 'Barbie' was created by Greta Gerwig, but Ruth Handler is the woman who started it all.
Kenneth Robert Handler (March 22, 1944 – June 11, 1994) was an American screenwriter, director, and film composer. He was the son of Mattel founders Elliot Handler and Ruth Handler, creators of the Barbie and Ken doll, the latter of which is named after him. [1] He directed Delivery Boys and A Place Without Parents.
Italian businessperson; died at age 57 Ruth Handler (1916–2002) born Ruth Marianna Mosko, American creator of Barbie and Nearly Me prosthetics; she survived breast cancer in the 1970s but died following colon cancer surgery at age 85 diagnosed in 1970 at age 54 Kathy Keeton (1939–1997)
Here, Ruth operates as a fascinating guide to death, a keys-keeper at the door to the next chapter. She herself is deeply flawed: As the movie teases, Ruth resigned from Mattel in 1974 and was ...
Ruth Handler, 85, American businesswoman and inventor of the Barbie doll, colorectal cancer. [122] Robert L. Joseph, 79, American theatre producer, playwright, and screenwriter. [123] Arthur Owen, 87, British racing driver (born 1915). Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, 81, German Industrialist and art collector, cardiovascular disease.