Alvin (Al) Weitz (m. ca. 1945; div. 19??) Art Batanides (m. 1954; div. 196?) David Moessinger (m. 1965; div. 19??) Ernie Colton (m. 19??)
Midge Ware Colton (born Muriel Florence Bendelson; October 20, 1927 – June 3, 2020) was an American model and stage, screen and television actress. She had a career lasting over 30 years in the show business.[citation needed]
Born in The Bronx, New York, Ware was the daughter of taxi driver Samuel Bendelson and Mitzi Restenbaum Bendelson. She had twin brothers. Her schoolmates nicknamed her Midge, and she eventually had that made her legal name.[1] She graduated from George Washington High School in Manhattan.[2]
Before she became an actress, Ware was a model whose picture was used on the magazine covers more than 100 times. Universal signed her to a film contract in 1950.[1] She debuted on film in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951).[3]
Ware performed on Broadway in The Fifth Season (1953) and Maybe Tuesday (1958).
On August 7, 1954, Ware married actor Art Batanides in Las Vegas. It was her second marriage.[6] They had two children together, son Jason and daughter Leslie Ann,[5] before they divorced in the early 1960s. Her third marriage was to David Moessinger, a director and writer, in 1965; they had a daughter together, Amy,[5] before divorcing at some unknown date.[3] Her fourth husband was Ernie Colton, and she was stepmother to son Craig; the couple had been married for many years at the time of her death.[5]
^ abc"Midge Ware, 92". Classic Images (542): 48. August 2020.
^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 95. ISBN978-0-7864-6477-7.
