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Inside Elizabeth Taylor’s Marriage to Mike Todd: Their Relationship Ended in Tragedy and Heartbreak
Elizabeth Taylor was married to Mike Todd for a year before their relationship ended in tragedy. She was 'happiest' during her union with the filmmaker.
“I think that was her true love,” Nanette Burstein, director of the HBO original documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes, exclusively told Closer in June 2024 at the Tribeca Film Festival. Kirk Douglas, who lived next door to Taylor and Todd, was supposed to be a passenger on the plane that night but his wife, Anne Buydens, told him not to take the trip. After Todd’s death, Taylor began an affair with her late husband’s good friend Eddie Fisher, who was married to Debbie Reynolds at the time.
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