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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. [5] Bertha died of a pneumothorax (collapsed lung) on August 12, 1946, in Santa Monica, California , while undergoing surgery at St. John's Hospital for a damaged tendon in her finger.
In 1983, Todd and his wife Susan McCarthy wrote a biography of Todd Sr. called A Valuable Property: The Life Story of Michael Todd. ( ISBN 0-87795-491-7 ) [ 5 ] On May 5, 2002, Michael Todd died in Ireland of lung cancer, at the age of 72, with all of his children and his second wife surviving him.
In 1943, Blondell returned to Broadway as the star of Mike Todd's short-lived production of The Naked Genius, a comedy written by Gypsy Rose Lee. [5] She was well received in her later films, despite being relegated to character and supporting roles after 1945, when she was billed below the title for the first time in 14 years in Adventure ...
Taylor saw Todd, who died in a plane crash roughly a year after they married, as the great love of her life. “My theory is that it would have endured,” Burstein says. “He was the best match ...
Her father was Michael Todd, Taylor’s third husband, who died in a plane crash when Liza was an infant. After his death, Taylor married fellow actor Richard Burton, who formally adopted Liza ...
The couple divorced in 1959 when it was revealed shortly after Taylor's third husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash, that she and Fisher had been having an affair. News of the affair was a great public scandal which led to the cancellation of Eddie Fisher's television show. [2] Fisher and Taylor married that same year.
On Saturday, Nov. 16, the former heavyweight title holder, 58, shared a candid statement to X (formerly Twitter), revealing that he "almost died" in June and underwent multiple blood transfusions ...
For Roadshow screenings Todd-AO is mentioned, though for general release those pages are not contained in the book. [citation needed] The programme was created by Todd's publicist, Art Cohn, who died in the plane crash with him. His biography, The Nine Lives of Michael Todd, was published after their deaths which put a macabre spin on the title.