{"id":18597,"date":"2023-05-19T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18597"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:15:45","slug":"mimi-weddell-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/mimi-weddell-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Weddell Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Mimi Weddell (American, 1915-2009)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Known for her role on <em>Sex and the City<\/em> and her prestigious collection of over 150 hats, Marion Rogers \u201cMimi\u201d Weddell began her career as an actress in earnest at the age of 65, in part to help pay off the bills left behind by her deceased husband. Her unique career made her an icon in Manhattan, eventually resulting in the 2008 documentary <em>Hats Off<\/em> focused on her exuberant lifestyle and her obsession with collecting hats, something that began when she was 16. Her portrait in this show, taken by artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/joyce-tenneson-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joyce Tenneson<\/a> when Weddell was 85, shows Weddell without her famous head garb, exposing the inner beauty that can be found at any age.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"18520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-754x900.webp\" alt=\"Joyce Tenneson, Mimi Weddell, 85, 2000, photograph, 24 x 20 in., Bates College Museum of Art, gift of Eric Levin, 2016.17.6\" class=\"wp-image-18520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-754x900.webp 754w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-251x300.webp 251w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-768x917.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-1287x1536.webp 1287w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6-526x628.jpg 526w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/2016.17.6.webp 1608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joyce Tenneson, Mimi Weddell, 85, 2000, photograph, 24 x 20 in., Bates College Museum of Art, gift of Eric Levin, 2016.17.6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi Weddell (American, 1915-2009) Known for her role on Sex and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18597\/revisions\/19420"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}