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At the age of 19, Todd married Bertha Freshman in Crown Point, Indiana, on Valentine's Day 1927. He had been interested in Freshman since his mid-teens, but needed to develop confidence before even asking her out.
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Jan 23, 2016 · A day or two after the filing, Bertha supposedly confronted her husband in his rented home in Rancho Santa Fe and lunged at him with a knife, only to miss, hit a doorframe, and slice a tendon ...
She was the estranged wife of Michael Todd. According to the coroner's report she died of natural causes. She was being operated on for a cut tendon of the right hand at the time. Cert. 11714.
Sep 19, 2016 · In it the late biographer mentioned that Todd had briefly been suspected by police of having murdered his first wife (Bertha Freshman) in order to be free to marry his much wealthier mistress Joan Blondell.
On February 14, 1927, he married Bertha Freshman in Crown Point, Indiana. Together they had a son Mike Todd, Jr., born in 1929. Todd separated from Freshman and filed for divorce in August 1946, however Freshman died within a week on August 12.
Jul 23, 2023 · This was also because he had previously been suspected of murdering his previous wife, Bertha Freshman. Todd was a reckless, debt-ridden gambler who spent all of Blondell's fortune over the course of their three-year marriage.
Bertha Freshman (February 15, 1926 - August 12, 1946) (her death, 1 child) Trivia. The biography "The Nine Lives of Mike Todd" reveals that he briefly was suspected of murdering his first wife Bertha, who died mysteriously in 1946, freeing the way for Todd to marry his mistress, Joan Blondell.
