Black Barbie will tell the story of how Mattel's first Black doll came to be in the 1980s, featuring insider stories from the ...

Handler was born Ruth Musko on November 4 ... Harold and Elliot's names to create the company we know today as "Mattel." Mattel was a picture-frame manufacturing company that was also making ...

Ruth Handler, who introduced the plastic doll to the world in 1959, wanted to give Barbie a boyfriend. So two years later Mattel started selling Ken, named for Handler's son, Kenneth. "I felt that ...

In 1945, Ruth and Elliot Handler, along with their friend Harold “Matt” Matson, co-founded a toy company named Mattel.

Mattel, Inc. engages in the ownership of ... The company was founded by Elliot Handler, Ruth Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.