biography
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Todd, Mike
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popular name of Michael Todd, originally Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1909–58)
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| biography:
| Showman, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The son of a poor rabbi, he made his first fortune at 14 in sales promotion. In 1927 he went to Hollywood, staged a real ‘Flame Dance’ spectacle at the Chicago World Fair in 1933, and produced plays, musical comedies, and films, including a jazz version of Gilbert and Sullivan, called The Hot Mikado (1939), and an up-dated Hamlet (1945). He sponsored the three-dimensional TODD-AO wide-screen process with his film Around the World in Eighty Days (1956, Oscar). He married the film actress Elizabeth Taylor in 1957, but was killed in an aircrash the following year. |
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