Need even more definitions. I expect you have a little string on your chest, you know, that I pull out and have to snap back. There had been attempts at "talking" dolls for the last 100 years since the time of Jumeau's Bebe Phongraphe and The Edison Talking Doll featured in 1890's Scientific American. Originally, Chatty Cathy had hair and blue eyes. What does Chatty Cathy mean. Need even more definitions. In 1984, Mattel introduced Chatty Patty, which also had a different look from the other Chatty dolls. Chatty Cathy's voice unit was designed by Jack Ryan, Mattel's head of research and development; he had also been responsible for designing the after a German doll called in 1959. Barbie and her many friends and relatives appeared in pull-string talking versions chatty patty meaning the late 1960s and early 1970s. Other Mattel dolls which "learned to talk" were the Baby Tender Love line 1970which eventually included Talking Baby Tender Love, and the Baby Mexning line 1971which spawned