Taking to Instagram on Thursday, she wrote to her 204 million followers: 'These Perry Playland dolls have been waiting to PLAY and now is their time to rise and shine!' She also said in the post ...

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she ...