Around the World in 80 Days
1956
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Mike Todd. Producer: Around the World in 80 Days. Film producer Michael Todd was one of the major contributors to technical innovation in the film industry in the 1950s.
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...
Michael "Mike" Todd was an Oscar winning American film and theatre producer. He is best remembered for producing the blockbuster hit American epic adventure-comedy film ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ that earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture. Todd commenced his career in construction business, however had a hard luck.
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure - comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists .
Michael Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen; June 22, 1907 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife.
American entertainment in the middle of the twentieth century was shaped by the contributions of master showman Mike Todd (1907-1958), a Broadway producer turned Hollywood movie mogul. Todd pioneered 70-millimeter film, the wide-screen movie spectacular, and the use of major stars in cameo roles.
Mar 18, 2024 · Michael Todd (born June 22, 1909, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.—died March 22, 1958, near Grants, N.M.) American showman with a flair for the flamboyant who is remembered as a film producer for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Todd made his first mark as a showman with a dancing revue at the Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago in 1933.
