Jarma Lewis and Ted Bensinger

Ted Bensinger & Jarma Lewis

Ted Bensinger and Jarma Lewis were married for 28 years. They dated for 9 months after getting together in Jan 1955. After a 1 month engagement they married on 27th Nov 1955. 28 years later they separated in Apr 1984 and divorced on 16th Oct 1984.

They had 3 children, John (68), Kerry R (65) and Tyler P (63).

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American Actor Ted Bensinger was born Benjamin Edward Bensinger on 27th November, 1929 in Chicago, IL, USA and passed away on 29th Jun 2013 Los Angeles, CA, USA aged 83. He is most remembered for The Fugitive (1963). His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.

American Actress Jarma Lewis was born Jarma Toy Lewis on 5th June, 1931 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and passed away on 12th Nov 1985 Los Angeles, CA aged 54. She is most remembered for Raintree County (1957).... Barbara Drake. Her zodiac sign is Gemini.

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Relationship Statistics

Status	Duration	Length
Dating	Jan 1955 - Oct 1955	9 months, 3 days
Engaged	Oct 1955 - 27th Nov 1955	1 month, 27 days
Married	27th Nov 1955 - 16th Oct 1984	28 years, 11 months
Total	Jan 1955 - 16th Oct 1984	29 years, 9 months

(November 27, 1955 - October 16, 1984) (divorced) (3 children)
October 22, 1955 announces her engagement to Benjamin Edward "Ted" Bensinger III of the Music Corp of America in Riverside, California. He’s from Chicago and a graduate of Culver Military Academy and Yale.
November 55 columnist Jimmy Fidler reports: "she will not get the traditional diamond engagement ring from Ted Bensinger, her fiancé. Instead, Miss Lewis has personally selected a single large pearl, from an assortment flown here from Chicago, and the pearl will be mounted in a setting of sapphires."
November 27, 19 55 marries Bensinger in Woodmere, Long Island, at the home of the bridegroom’s grandparents, U.S. District Court Judge Clarence G. Galston and Mrs. Galston. He’s 26; she’s 24.
the Bensingers honeymoon in South America and settle in Los Angeles
May 56 her husband reinjures his right knee when he takes a bad spill while playing tennis in Palm Springs. Luckily, Dr. Lew Morrill, Rhonda Fleming's husband, is present and immediately administers first aid.
July 57 settles with her bowling alley tycoon husband in Chicago.
They expect their baby soon.
? her son John is born
October 28, 1960 her son Kerry R. is born in Los Angeles
December 61 columnist Mike Connolly notes from Hollywood that she and Bensinger "flaked out in time to make the snowflake scene for Christmas in his hometown of Chicago, to be followed by New Year's in Jamaica."
May 62 columnist Hedda Hopper tells: "Ted Bensinger got an earful listening in on a conversation among his wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Denise Minnelli, Mary Morrison, and yours truly. Next day I was lunching at the Bensinger home and Ted said: 'Could you have three dames over for lunch and invite me as the only male? I'd like to hear the end of that conversation.' The girls were discussing men."
25 September 62 her son Tyler P. is born in Los Angeles
March 64 columnist Hedda Hopper notes her at Benny Thau's fun party for Spanish painter Alejo Vidal-Quadros wearing a gold coin necklace her husband, Ted, bought for her in Puerto Vallarta
70s becomes a writer and is active with the UCLA Art Council
October 16, 1984 divorced Bensinger in Los Angeles