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Feb 5, 2020 · In the late morning of March 21, 1958, Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, award-winning film and theater producer Mike Todd, called his close friend and neighbor Douglas across the street to his...
Five days before the crash, Todd flew on this plane to Albuquerque, 78 miles (126 km) east of the crash site, to promote a screening of Michael Todd's Around the World in 80 Days. [ 39] This ad for Trans World Airlines appeared in Playbill on February 10, 1958, about six weeks prior to Todd's fatal plane crash.
Mar 4, 2022 · Tragically, the flight never made it to New York City. Turbulent weather caused the plane to crash in New Mexico's Zuni Mountains on March 22, 1958. There were no survivors. Upon hearing the news, Taylor became despondent. She and Todd had only been married a year before his untimely death.
All four occupants were killed, among them the American film producer Mike Todd, husband of Elizabeth Taylor, who was flying with his scenarist Art Cohn. The twin engine airplane was christened 'The Liz'.
Mar 23, 2011 · On March 23, 1958, The Times reported the death of producer Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor's third husband, in a plane crash in New Mexico. Todd's best friend, singer Eddie Fisher, later...
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The Civil Aeronautics Board said today that an engine failure, combined with an overload of gasoline and ice caused the plane crash that killed Mike Todd, the...
Jan 23, 2016 · MICHAEL TODD’S WIFE DIES ON OPERATING TABLE, the Los Angeles Times headlined its story, setting off a forest fire of conjecture. Things got worse when a preliminary autopsy couldn’t determine...
Jul 31, 2015 · Kirk Douglas tells PEOPLE how he narrowly avoided the plane crash that killed Elizabeth Taylor's husband Mike Todd and three other passengers in 1958. On- and offscreen, Kirk Douglas has...
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March 22--Mike Todd, theatrical and motion-picture producer, was killed with three other men early today when his private plane crashed and burned in the Zuni Mountains...
MIKE TODD KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Producer Left Friday Night For New York. GRANTS. N.M. (UP)—Showman Mike Todd. 50. was killed Friday night when his private plane crashed into wild mountainous terrain during a thunderstorm 11* miles southwest of here.