This Risque Doll Inspired Barbie & Beat Her Live-Action Movie Debut 65 Years Ago

Learn More While Ruth Handler's Barbie revolutionized the toy industry in the U.S. in 1959 by introducing a doll of a grown-up woman instead of a baby or young girl, a European toymaker actually beat the Mattel co-founder and president to the marketplace with a similar — albeit more risqué — 11…

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