One of the most iconic faces, the Superstar face showed Barbie smiling for the first time. In the 1960s, Mattel responded to the civil rights movement by introducing black dolls into the Barbie ...

Barbie may seem commonplace now, but in 1959, her presence was revolutionary. ... At that time, Stone said, “They changed Barbie’s face to have a direct gaze to reflect that.

Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig says she wanted a “mic drop” moment to bring the movie to a close – and she isn’t talking about box office success, though she got that too.