(January 20, 1955 - July 1975) (divorced)
August 54 columnist Jimmy Fidler knows: “I hear that Ted Briskin will wed Colleen Miller sometime early in 1955. His divorce becomes final in January...”
January 55
Fidler is back to her: “I hear that Colleen Miller and Ted Briskin will wed when Colleen finishes her current picture...”
20 January 55
marries Theodore Samuel "Ted" Briskin, the ex of actresses Betty Hutton and Joan Dixon, at the office of his attorney, Sidney Korshak, in Chicago. He’s 37; she’s 25. The ceremony is performed by Judge Joseph Drucker of municipal court. Witnesses are Korshak and his secretary, Mary Oppenheim. Immediately afterwards they leave for a honeymoon in Florida and Havana. Briskin’s the son of Samuel Briskin, the founder of Chicago’s Revere Camera Company, and has two children from his marriage to Hutton.
Feb 1955 columnist Louella Parsons tells: “Ted Briskin flew out from Chicago just long enough to kiss his attractive bride, Colleen Miller, and wish her luck on her new picture, then business took him back home. So Colleen just has Tony Curtis and the cast and crew of The Rawhide Years at Universal-International to keep her company...”
March 55
she and her husband are entertained at La Rue by Harry Karl and Rhonda Fleming her mother is reported living in San Francisco; her father’s deceased. “Her favorite authors are Somerset Maugham, De Maupassant, and Browning. She paints with oils, mostly landscapes.”
May 55
is nominated for stardom by famed columnist Louella Parsons the Briskins are noted at La Rue with Hal Hayes and Barbara Rush
July 55 insists that her marriage to Ted Briskin has to come first, before her career at Universal-International
November 55 she and Briskin expect their first baby
c. 56
her daughter, Robin J., is born in Chicago
September 57 Earl Wilson tells: “Ted Briskin, Chicago Revere camera tycoon, at the Little Club on his first New York visit in two years, said his bride, movie beauty Colleen Miller, is expecting their second in December....”
Early 58 her son, Richard T., is born in Chicago
August 60 Briskin’s family sells the Revere Camera empire to the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for $25 million. Her husband is slated to remain with the firm as production boss.
January 62
columnist Mike Connolly tells that the Briskins and their two children will wing in from Chicago in February to make their permanent home in California. “Ted tells me he may produce pictures if anything interesting in the line of scripts turns up.’ And Colleen may return to acting.”
July 75 divorces Briskin in Los Angeles. Briskin died at age 62 in 1980 in Los Angeles.