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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. T
Todd at the Jones Beach Theater, 1952
Todd owned a Theatre Cafe in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood in the 1940s that provided dinner with live presentations and music.
First act finale from A Night in Venice The production was replete with a cast of 500 and fireworks.
CBS paid Mike Todd for the rights to cover the first anniversary celebration at Madison Square Garden for Around the World in 80 Days as a television special in 1957. Todd and his wife Elizabeth Taylor are seen here at home in a film clip which was used for the special.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the
Mike 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 Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year…
Taylor c. 1955
Taylor (left) at age two with her mother Sara Sothern (center) and brother Howard (right) in 1934
Taylor in a studio publicity photo in 1942
Mickey Rooney and Taylor in National Velvet (1944), her first major film role