Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy I sometimes get scared," Mike Todd said last month. "I get damned scared I can't last; the law of averages is being just a little too good...
...million, "will be the first movie ever to make $100 million." Said Todd: "I don't know where I'm going to spend it all." But no one who knew of his big-spending sprees and worldwide princely junkets with his wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, doubted that Mike would find...
Dames & Comedy. Too much money was not always a problem; Mike Todd's personal finances, like an anesthetist's bag, alternately puffed and collapsed. Fifty years or so ago in Minnesota, when he was Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, son of a Polish rabbi, the family was poor. But before he was 20, he and his brother Frank had made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast...
...never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is a temporary situation." He began to straighten out the temporary situation of 1947 with As the Girls Go, which opened-a scant year after bankruptcy-on money provided by angels whose faith in Mike was unshaken. Todd invested early in Cinerama, sold out and invested in Todd-AO, sold his interest in this successful process to help finance 80 Days. He wanted everything to be big, fast, spectacular. On the first anniversary of 80 Days, he threw a party for 18,000 friends in Madison...
...Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed back when the plane was at 13,000 feet. Minutes later...