Mike Todd
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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 Taylor did not divorce.
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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.[17]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/A_Night_in_Venice_1953.jpg/500px-A_Night_in_Venice_1953.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
First act finale from A Night in Venice The production was replete with a cast of 500 and fireworks.[17]![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.[20] Todd and his wife Elizabeth Taylor are seen here at home in a film clip which was used for the special.](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Mike_Todd_Elizabeth_Taylor_Around_the_World_in_80_Days_first_anniversary_special_1957.jpg/1280px-Mike_Todd_Elizabeth_Taylor_Around_the_World_in_80_Days_first_anniversary_special_1957.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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.[20] Todd and his wife Elizabeth Taylor are seen here at home in a film clip which was used for the special.
Todd with Elizabeth Taylor in Belgrade
Todd with daughter Liza and wife Elizabeth Taylor, 1957
This ad for Trans World Airlines appeared in Playbill on February 10, 1958, about six weeks prior to Todd's fatal plane crash.
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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 Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format.
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