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Mike Todd. 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. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one whom ...
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- 1933–1958
- Producer
- March 22, 1958 (aged 48), Grants, New Mexico, U.S.
Feb 6, 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 ...
Jan 23, 2016 · The Legend of Oscar-Winning Producer-Showman Mike Todd. One year after his marriage to Elizabeth Taylor and his controverisal best picture triumph at the 1957 Oscars for 'Around the World in 80 ...
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. Having worked with Fred Waller and Cinerama, he got tired of the three-panel format, left the company and tried to find the process for making "Cinerama coming from one hole". He joined forces with the American Optical Co. and ...
- June 22, 1907
- March 22, 1958
Childhood & Early Life. Michael "Mike" Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen on June 22, 1909, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, as youngest son of a poor family of Polish Jewish immigrants, Chaim Goldbogen and Sophia Hellerman. His father was an Orthodox rabbi. Todd had eight siblings. Years later, he changed his name to Mike Todd, deciding to ...
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Michael Todd 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. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one whom Taylor did not divorce. Todd died in a private plane accident a year after their marriage. He was the driving force behind the ...
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 always ...
