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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, née Moskowicz, was born on November 4, 1916, in Denver, Colorado, per PBS. According to the Jewish Women's Archive , Handler's parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, and she ...
This summer's 'Barbie' was created by Greta Gerwig, but Ruth Handler is the woman who started it all.
As expected, the Barbie movie was chock-full of Barbies and Kens -- and even a Skipper, an Allan, and a Midge! However, one cameo fans may not have been expecting came during a climactic chase ...
Rhea Jo Perlman [2] (born March 31, 1948) is an American actress. She is well-known for playing head waitress Carla Tortelli in the sitcom Cheers (1982–1993). [3] Over the course of 11 seasons, Perlman was nominated for 10 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress, winning 4, and was nominated for a record six Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series.
Born: Elliot Handler, American inventor, co-founder of Mattel with wife Ruth Handler which produced popular toys as Barbie and Hot Wheels, in Chicago (d. 2011 ); Léonie Duquet , French nun, disappeared and murdered along with fellow sister Alice Domon by the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War , in ...
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 ...
A former ship captain, 83-year-old Rolf Neslund, is shot, cut up and burned. The investigation reveals that he had an argument, with his wife Ruth, over his retirement fund. Rolf's body is never found and the case goes unsolved for several years until there is enough evidence to charge his wife, Ruth for his murder.