Well over six decades before Greta Gerwig brought Barbie to the big screen, a racy German doll inspired a film of its own -- as well as the Barbie doll itself.

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The iconic Barbie doll, a symbol of childhood dreams for millions of girls globally, holds a surprising secret within her pink plastic exterior. In the late 1940s, German cartoonist Reinhard Beuthien ...

70 years ago, a German tabloid newspaper created the Lilli doll, a fantasy figure for men based on a cartoon character, which eventually inspired another iconic doll — Barbie.Needing to fill some ...