Barbie was created by Ruth Handler of Mattel who was the principal architect of the doll's campaign. Handler was inspired by watching her daughter play with paper dolls that resembled adult women.

Wind it up and it wrecks two marriages. What is it? The Elizabeth Taylor doll. You wind up the Jack Paar doll and it cries. Wind up the Jack Benny doll and it won’t give back the key.

Languages: English Zelda Fitzgerald once gauged a publisher's interest in creating a collection filled with the striking paper dolls she made for her daughter, but the book she imagined never ...

She shares her love of restoring and is a trusted expert. Years ago, paper dolls and toys by Raphael Tuck and Sons were all the rage. Tuck was born in Prussia in 1821 and married Ernestine Lissner ...

Rather, her memories are of playing with paper dolls, an experience many of you recall from back in the day. What might some friends and associates asked when they learned that today’s topic was ...