Ruth Handler is a real-life legend in the toy business, but the full truth of her life is even stranger than even the most die-hard Barbie fans may realize.
The movie version of Ruth Handler also bitterly alludes to her being forced out of Mattel due to a clash over financial problems. This is played for laughs, but it’s based on truth as well. The scandal engulfed not just Handler but others who were employed at the toy manufacturer. “reported that Handler had been accused of falsifying “internal business records concerning earnings and sales in 1971, 1972 and 1973 so that they could influence the market price of Mattel stock.
Handler was a trailblazer in an era when society relegated most women to the role of housewife, and her business acumen made her a formidable executive and strategist. Yet as“She had also allowed padding and other falsifying of the company books, and her protestations of innocence, her refusal to take responsibility, made the prosecution determined to push for a severe sentence.
Handler could have gotten 41 years in prison, but she still found her comparatively light sentence to be severe. She wanted to create a giveaway program of her Nearly Me prosthetics for underprivileged cancer patients who might otherwise be unable to afford them, but the judge rejected that proposal.
Handler’s creation of Barbie isn’t closely documented in the movie, which takes a more fanciful approach to the toy universe. Various Barbies and Kens exist in a separate dimension where life is idyllic and the problems of the real world seldom interfere. In the real world, Ruth married her husband, Elliot Handler, in 1938, and they started a business making home goods, often utilizing plastics. In the 1940s, they entered a partnership with industrial designer Harold Matson to create a new business manufacturing picture frames, according to theUsing the same materials, they branched off into another enterprise creating smaller furnishings—this time for dollhouses.
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