The Sorrow And The Pity marked a turning point, not only in his career, but in the way France confronted its past.

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 ...

which Barbie wore between 1962 and 1963. Some, including the mini metallic go-go dress “Salute to Silver” (1969), paired with a drop-waist version, are more evocative than equivalent ...

Exactly 30 years later, in 1992, Barbie became President of the United States. (In Barbieland, of course.) Back in the 1960s, it wasn’t common for women to have full-time jobs. However ...

Dolls such as Fashion Queen Barbie (1963) and Totally Hair Barbie (1992), for example, had wigs and wildly long locks to facilitate playing with her hair. Barbie’s head moulds themselves have ...

(“A Barbie Doll, for you lucky people who don’t have daughters, is a $3 doll that requires $1200 worth of clothes to be dressed properly,” wrote columnist Art Buchwald in 1963.) It’s not ...

but Mattel ended up buying the rights for Bild Lilli in 1963 for $21,600 (equivalent to over $200,000 today)." Mattel provides a detailed biography of Barbie: Her full name is Barbara Millicent ...

A not-yet-pregnant Midge originally debuted in 1963, and there’s even a Wedding Party Midge gift set from some 30 years later that includes Midge and Allan (for some reason renamed “Alan”) alongside ...

Greta Gerwig takes us on an epic ride to Barbie Land in her pink-hued movie about the classic Mattel doll, making it clear to us all that Barbie really is everything. Since her big, blonde debut ...

Midge (also known as the "pregnant Barbie"). Midge was first introduced in 1963 as Barbie’s best friend, per TIME. The doll is usually paired up with her plastic husband, Allan Sherwood (who is ...