"were once more identified through dental records and were reburied in a secret location. !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Producer of Academy Award for Best Picture Mike Todd Michael ""Mike"" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of ""Around the World in 80 Days"", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is known as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands, and is the only one whom she did not divorce (he died in a private plane"
"summer of 1956, and were divorced in 1957. Taylor married her third husband, theater and film producer Mike Todd, in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, on February 2, 1957. They had one daughter, Elizabeth ""Liza"" Frances (b. 1957). Todd, known for publicity stunts, encouraged the media attention to their marriage; for example, in June 1957, he threw a birthday party at Madison Square Garden, which was attended by 18,000 guests and broadcast on CBS. His death in a plane crash on March 22, 1958, left Taylor devastated. She was comforted by Todd's and her friend, singer Eddie Fisher, with whom she soon"
"a ceremony performed by the mayor of Acapulco. It was the third marriage for both the 24-year-old bride and her 47-year-old groom. Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, was their witness. Todd and Taylor had a daughter, Elizabeth Frances (Liza) Todd, born on August 6, 1957. On March 22, 1958, Todd's private plane ""the Liz"" crashed near Grants, New Mexico. The plane, a twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar, suffered engine failure, while being flown overloaded in icing conditions at an altitude that was too high for only one engine working under the heavy load. The plane went out of control and crashed,"
"Todd was an emotional and financial disaster. She once accused him of holding her outside a hotel window by her ankles. He was also a heavy spender who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars gambling (high-stakes bridge was one of his weaknesses) and went through a controversial bankruptcy during their marriage. An often-repeated myth is that Mike Todd ""dumped"" Joan Blondell for Elizabeth Taylor, when in fact, Blondell left Todd of her own accord years before he met Taylor. Blondell was a Republican. Blondell died of leukemia in Santa Monica, California, on Christmas Day, 1979, with her children and her"
"died in the crash or the ensuing conflagration. The cause of the accident was determined to be that the center of gravity was behind the rear limit. It is also likely the elevator trim tab was set for landing rather than takeoff. On March 22, 1958, Mike Todd's private plane Lucky Liz, named after his wife Elizabeth Taylor, crashed near Grants, New Mexico. The plane, a twin-engine Lockheed Lodestar, suffered engine failure while being flown overloaded, in icing conditions at too-high an altitude for the loading. The plane went out of control and crashed, killing all four on board. On"
"the early 1960s, entitled ""My Name Is Morgan"", was considered to be loosely based on Todd's life and career. At age 17, Todd married Bertha Freshman in Crown Point, Indiana, on Valentine's Day 1927. He had been interested in Freshman since age 14, but needed to develop confidence before even asking her out. In 1929, the couple's son, Mike Todd, Jr., was born. The death of his father in 1931 was a turning point for Todd; he decided to change his name to Mike Todd on the day of his father's death. Todd's wife, Bertha, died of a pneumothorax (collapsed"
"which he produced. It was re-released as ""Holiday in Spain"" without smells. Following in his father's footsteps of producing attractions for World's Fairs, Todd Jr. produced a racially integrated minstrel show for the 1964 New York World's Fair, called ""America, Be Seated"". It closed after two performances. In 1983, Todd and his wife Susan McCarthy wrote a biography of Todd Sr. called ""A Valuable Property: The Life Story of Michael Todd"". () Todd was first married to Sarah Jane Weaver (1953-1972), and they had six children: Cyrus, Susan, Sarah, Eliza Haselton, Daniel, and Oliver Todd. Later, when married to Susan"
"Hot Tin Roof"" (1958) a career ""high point"", although it coincided with one of the most difficult periods in her personal life. After completing ""Raintree Country"", she had divorced Wilding and married producer Mike Todd. She had completed only two weeks of filming in March 1958, when Todd was killed in a plane crash. Although she was devastated, pressure from the studio and the knowledge that Todd had large debts led Taylor to return to work only three weeks later. She later stated that she ""in a way ... became Maggie"", and that acting ""was the only time I could"
"was romantically involved with Elizabeth Taylor. Although he and Taylor reportedly had plans to marry, Taylor would eventually leave him for her future husband Mike Todd. Todd and McClory fell out over Taylor yet they managed to complete the final cut of the film side by side. The trio would eventually reconcile and they remained friends until Todd's untimely death in 1958. In 1957 McClory led an expedition of 25 men in an attempt to drive around the world. He filmed a documentary of the adventure, ""One Road"", as well as a series of ads for his sponsor Ford Motor"
"House in 1955, on which the movie ""The Joker Is Wild"" (1957) was based. At the time of his death, Cohn was writing a biography of Mike Todd, ""The Nine Lives of Michael Todd"", which was finished by Cohn's wife and released by Random House in 1958. Cohn died on March 22, 1958, in the same plane crash that killed Broadway theatre and Hollywood film producer Mike Todd, pilot Bill Verner and co-pilot Tom Barclay. The twin-engine, 12-passenger Lockheed Lodestar crashed in bad weather in the Zuni Mountains near Grants, New Mexico. Ironically, Todd had named the plane ""The Lucky"
"impact, and whatever remains were found couldn't be identified... The only items recovered from the wreckage were Mike's wedding ring and a pair of platinum cuff links I'd given him. In June 1977, Todd's remains were desecrated by graverobbers. The thieves broke into his casket looking for a $100,000 diamond ring, which, according to rumor, Taylor had placed on her husband's finger prior to his burial. The bag containing Todd's remains was found under a tree near his burial plot. The bag and casket had been sealed in Albuquerque after Todd's remains were identified following the 1958 crash. Todd's remains"
"a clerk position at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). While working at the TVA, Todd recruited members for the Communist Party. Following her divorce from McConnell in 1937 and subsequent marriage to Pat Todd, an electrician, Todd moved to New York City in 1938 then back to North Carolina in 1940.[6] In 1940, Todd was listed as one of forty-five suspected Communist Party members employed by the TVA in a letter sent to the chair of the TVA by J. Edgar Hoover.[1] An internal TVA investigation could not confirm that Todd was a member of the Communist Party.[1] In 1950,"
"summed up as an inability to sit still while there was a horse to leap astride, a swollen river to swim or a tree to vanish into.' Both Todd's marriages ended in divorce. His first was to actress Catherine Grant-Bogle, whom he met in Dundee Repertory and was married to from 1949 until 1970; they had a son Peter (1952–2005) and a daughter Fiona. In 1960 he had a son Jeremy with model Patricia Nelson. He was married to model Virginia Mailer from 1970 until 1992; they had two sons, Andrew and Seamus (1977–1997). In retirement, Todd lived in the"
"6 September 1902. On his return to Britain he set up in business in London, and on 2 December 1902 he married Alice Mary Crean, sister of Thomas Joseph Crean with whom Todd toured South Africa in 1896. In 1914 he joined the special Reserve Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment and reached the rank of captain whilst serving in France during the First World War. In 1915, Todd was part of the British assault on Hill 60 at Ypres Salient. He was seriously wounded during the action and died of his injuries on 21 April. His remains are buried at"
"days of the Great Depression. Not yet 21, Todd had lost over $1 million (equivalent to about $ in today's funds). Todd married the former Bertha Freshman on February 14, 1927, and was the father of an infant son with no home for his family. Todd's subsequent business career was volatile, and failed ventures left him bankrupt many times. During the 1933–1934 Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Todd produced an attraction called the ""Flame Dance"". In this number, gas jets were designed to burn part of a dancer's costume, leaving her naked in appearance. The act attracted enough attention"
"1993. Todd joined Australian team the Canberra Raiders in 1986, after a $37,200 transfer fee was paid. Todd played at prop forward for the Raiders in the Winfield Cup Grand Finals of 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991. After suffering a broken arm in 1988, he spent the off-season with Wakefield Trinity, playing nine games. He later played for the Gold Coast club, before retiring from the New South Wales Rugby League premiership in 1993. Later he became an Australian-based television commentator for league games. Todd married former world surfing champion Wendy Botha. In 1994, and they were married for 11"
"from a brain tumour in 1977, at the age of 45. Shortly after her death, Dodd began a relationship with Anne Jones, which lasted from 1978 until his death. They first met in 1961 when Jones appeared in ""The Ken Dodd Christmas Show"" at the Manchester Opera House. Dodd married Jones on 9 March 2018, two days before his death. Dodd said that one of his biggest regrets in life was that he never had children. It was widely reported that he and Anne were unable to conceive naturally. During his 1989 trial details of his personal life surfaced in"
"government officials and leaders of Christian organizations. Investigative reports in magazines and books said there were many inconsistencies in his statements about anti-Christian conspiracies and his own past. In 1988 Todd was convicted in South Carolina on charges of rape and sentenced to 30 years in a prison. In 2004 he was released from prison and placed in a psychiatric facility, where he died in 2007. Todd's earliest known public speaking engagements began in 1968, when he was preaching and married to a woman named Linda. He claimed he had been a witch while in the United States Navy, but"
"She also enjoyed fast cars and boats and in 1957 turned down a marriage proposal from the racing driver Mike Hawthorn who died in a crash off the racing track in 1959. In 1960, she married her flying instructor Peter Twiss who broke the world air speed record as the first man to fly faster than 1,000 mph. She was the third of his five wives. They had a daughter, the writer Miranda Twiss, who was born in 1961, but they were divorced not long after. In 1963 they both competed in the ""Daily Express"" International Offshore Powerboat Race from"
"from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888. Todd worked at the US Naval Observatory from 1875 to 1878, and at the US Nautical Almanac Office from 1878 to 1881. From 1881 to 1917 he was a professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at Amherst College, and from 1917 onward he was professor emeritus there. From 1882 to 1887, he was also a professor of astronomy and higher mathematics at nearby Smith College. He married Mabel Loomis on March 5, 1879, and had one daughter, Millicent. His wife had had an affair with William Austin Dickinson, the (married) brother"
"accepted Todd’s resignation in 1950 due to her refusal to answer questions during her appearance before the HUAC.[7] Todd’s affiliation with the Communist Party and labor organizations began when she became acquainted with Kenneth McConnell while working at J. Walter Thompson Advertising Company Francisco in the late 1920s. Todd married McConnell, a political activist, in 1930 and they moved to Chapel Hill in 1931. McConnell was recruited into the Communist Party in 1935 and Todd joined as a member of the Communist Party sometime in the mid-1930s.[1] When McConnell was assigned to Knoxville by the Communist Party, Todd applied for"
"for Excellence"" in The Yorkshire Post business awards 2018. The award was collected on his behalf by his widow, Frances. Dodd met his wife, Frances McTigue, a dental nurse at a party in 1970, but they did not marry until 1978. Dodd and his wife, Frances, lived in Carlton-in-Cleveland a village in North Yorkshire where he kept a selection of vintage vehicles. Dodd died on 30 May 2018, aged 70, when the Bell 206B helicopter he was piloting crashed into a field at Aldborough near to Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire. He had taken off from Husthwaite just a few minutes"
"alternating with Gobel's series). Fisher's strong and melodious tenor made him a teen idol and one of the most popular singers of the early 1950s. He had 17 songs in the Top 10 on the music charts between 1950 and 1956 and 35 in the Top 40. In 1956, Fisher costarred with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the musical comedy ""Bundle of Joy"". He played a dramatic role in the 1960 drama ""Butterfield 8"" with second wife Elizabeth Taylor. His best friend was showman and producer Mike Todd, who died in a plane crash in 1958. Fisher's affair, divorce from Reynolds,"
"Assembly for Port Melbourne. With his seat's abolition in 1958, he transferred to the Victorian Legislative Council, winning a seat in Melbourne West Province. He served until his retirement in 1970, during which time he was a party whip. Todd died at Elsternwick in 1981. Archie Todd Archibald ""Archie"" Todd (11 April 1899 – 9 March 1981) was an Australian politician. He was born in Carlton and attended local state schools before becoming a wood machinist. He was closely involved with the Timber Workers' Union, serving as state president and federal vice-president. On 2 September 1922 he married finisher Margaret"
"another LSTM expedition to conduct further studies of trypanosomes in the Gambia in January 1911. He was accompanied by Simeon Burt Wolbach of Harvard University. Todd married Marjory Clouston (1882–1945) on 20 December 1911. She was the daughter of Edward Clouston, General Manager of the Bank of Montreal. They settled on a farm in Senneville, Quebec, and were to have three daughters. During World War I Todd served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. From 1916 to 1919 he was Canadian Pension Commissioner, and had lasting influence on the way in which Canadian pensions are administered. After the war he"
"five, the friend was pleading with Renstrom to start thinking about returning home. In the 1950s, Renstrom built a family vacation home in what was then the emerging resort town of Acapulco, Mexico. Renstrom christened the property ""Villa Vera"", after his oldest daughter. Renstrom eventually added five smaller villas to the property to entertain clients and friends. His next door neighbor was Teddy Stauffer, or ""Mr. Acapulco"" as he came to dubbed. Renstrom convinced Stauffer to manage his property whenever he was away. Together the two of them entertained the ""jet set"" of the time. Elizabeth Taylor married Mike Todd"
"""Christie"" Todd in 1974. They resided on a farm in the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey. They had a son, Taylor, and a daughter, Kate, and six grandchildren. Whitman served as Chairman and CEO of Prudential-Bache Interfunding from 1987 to 1990. He also was the managing partner of Sycamore Ventures, an international venture capital fund incorporated in the Cayman Islands. During his wife's term as Governor of New Jersey, Whitman held no official role in her administration. He was appointed by his wife as co-chairman of the New Jersey World Cup Host Committee in 1994. He also mediated"
"later on September 22, 2010 at his home in Berkeley, California, from complications from hip surgery. He was 82 years old. |- !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor Eddie Fisher (singer) Edwin John ""Eddie"" Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was the most successful pop singles artist during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a"
"University, studying for 2 years with J. E. Littlewood, who advised him against getting a doctorate and just to do research. He taught at Queens University Belfast 1933-1937, and was an invited speaker at the 1936 ICM in Oslo on ""Transfinite Superpositions of Absolutely Continuous Functions"" He worked at King's College in London for the years 1937–1939 (and again 1945–1947), where he met Olga Taussky, a matrix and number theorist (she had also been an invited speaker in Oslo). They were married in 1938. Todd returned to Belfast to teach at Methodist College Belfast 1940-1941.[1] As part of the war"
"with Alzheimer's disease. Art Todd died on 10 October 2007 of congestive heart failure in Honolulu at the age of 93. Art and Dotty Todd Art and Dotty Todd were an American husband and wife singing duo who reached the Top Ten in the UK and the US with the hits ""Broken Wings"" (1953) and ""Chanson D'Amour"" (1958). Dotty Todd was born Doris Dabb in Elizabeth, New Jersey on 22 June 1913. She studied the piano from an early age, giving a piano recital at Carnegie Hall at the age of 13. She was performing at the Providence Biltmore Hotel"
"remained married to her until his death in 1952. Following Todd's death and his divorce, West rarely worked and withdrew into virtual seclusion. In the early 1950s his health began to decline and he suffered a stroke and a nervous breakdown. He died in Santa Monica, California in 1952, aged 67. West has long been considered a murder suspect in many conspiracy theories due to the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of his mistress, actress Thelma Todd. Todd and West began their affair shortly after meeting on a yachting excursion to Catalina Island in 1930. The two eventually became business"
"Super Bowl. They were married on February 18, 1995, with Beard's family and friends suspicious that Johnson had married him for his money. On October 2, 1999, Beard was shot in the stomach while he was asleep, at his home near Jollyville. Beard was later released from the hospital, but succumbed to a blood clot. Beard died on January 22, 2000. Local police tied the shooting to Tracey Tarlton, who Johnson had met at Saint David’s Pavilion, a mental-health facility, after Johnson threatened to commit suicide when she began fighting with Beard over her lavish spending. Tarlton, arrested at home"
"stayed home with a cold after Todd overruled her pleas to join the trip. Just hours before the crash, Todd described the plane as safe as he phoned friends, including Joseph Mankiewicz and Kirk Douglas, in an attempt to recruit a gin rummy player for the flight: ""Ah, c'mon,"" he said. ""It's a good, safe plane. I wouldn't let it crash. I'm taking along a picture of Elizabeth, and I wouldn't let anything happen to her."" His son, Mike Jr., wanted his father's body to be cremated after it was identified through dental records and brought to Albuquerque, New Mexico,"