European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eddie a Friend in Richard Burlon Jungle on to a yacht party in connection with for around the world in 80 the Host was the films pro Mrike Elizabeth Taylor and Michael a spokesman for of quoted Wilding As saying much Irful thought has been Given to the up we Are it is being done so it we will have an Opportunity to out our personal fris personal situation quickly re i solved the received a phone Call from Lota she and had met a few lets asking bar to come to Raff when us greeted Todd the Day she expected to talk about a in one of Toddi future preposterous Mike Todd pro i Mil that moment us had never i closer to Todd than a Well into his had been med twice and had a son close to i and in was an outrageous character who i made and Tost to some was show business to vulgar time Magazine teed him As a Short fused Cine on orphaned sort who would s out salted nuts at his own hanging owned the Beer Lien he proposed to he was in midst of producing around the rid in 80 which slapped Jules no and hundreds of famous actors i a giant hero Sandwich of a movie i turned out to be a roaring like courted us in typical sen for five weeks he called on the phone from sue to ten times often the pair talked until Hen us went on location in Ken to far Raintree Mike r in Bis private plane and whizzed to lunch at the pump room in this Little Outing Cost Over Tan Mike presented Liz with a engagement asked to comment the rugs Mike its that its u thirty Eta is this one is a bad an operation for a renal she awoke from pc and noticed that the Walls Hospital room were plastered i including stuff by Pis Monet and Franz us Bod Mike pre her with another Little memento in the Selwyn the priced at 1th this substantial show of a Fec i a girl could hardly say and us it she and Mike were married in after Todd had arranged a divorce for us and Best Man was mikes Eddie his Debbie i As Lizs Matron of with Todd opened up new facets ims of existence to Elizabeth Joseph who knew them Mike was responsible for the intellectual and emotional Awakening of this for Alt his he was a Man of an infinite variety of she had been a sort of sleeping Beauty in an isolated Mike took her through the cobwebs to the outer world in which there is something More than movie producers and wardrobe before the people she knew outside the motion picture Industry could probably be counted on the fingers of one while Mike provided Liz with new intellectual he also kept her in the limelight and generously shared is financial blessings with the Happy pair had a daughter who soon graced the pages of life1 As Holt of a Madonna Ana child with us playing the satisfied and seemingly do Liz announced her retirement As an then on a foggy March Mike boarded his private the Lucky and the next time the plane was seen it had slowed into the Side of a new Mexico Mike Todd was dead in the midst of All his glory Liz mourned Mike who had hit her a very wealthy widow hysterically and when she saw mikes coffin at the she at the conclusion of the burial she placed her hands on the coffin and i lore As her Cor left the one reporter heard her Melkel hike my sweetheart i cant leave you she bad the Good taste not to overdo she tried to Lake her mind off her sorrow by going Back to work on cat on a hot tin she work int an answer to but its then she found the Eddie Fisher called one night to cheer up his Best friends As one wag had that hello led to the longest goodbye in the history of the Telephone com and Eddie found themselves to Gether in while eddies Debbie was in the pair wined and dined and laughed and asked about the widow Todd Mike would have a it became evident that Eddie had done wonders for Liz in the Consolation and that eddies All american Lomance with Debbie was on the Hedda Hopper tracked Down us and came Back with a Story which quoted her As you know i dont go around breaking up Happy cover us at 8 ii cheese cake m you cant break up a Happy Debbie and eddies never has for a Debbie tried to pretend that she never read the which were full of lit and but finally broke into print to in still in love with my we were never happier than we have been in the past to which Liz retorted by saying to Sidney what am i supposed to do ask him logo Back to her and try he and it he they destroy each it ended As such things usually end in the divorce after a few com Debbie divorced and Eddie married and la announced to various members of the press that she had become aware of deeper spirit Ual values and was converting to jul she also added that she was thinking seriously of accepting ii million and a percentage of the Gross for the Lead in a new motion Elizabeth and Eddie were to married on May they faced the Wrath of the nations moral incensed at the bust up of eddies marriage to the eminent miss Elsa the facts seemed to me to prove she us has been aggressive in her ruthless in her disregard for the feelings of those who have stood in he path and indifferent to the wreckage she has left behind the nation May Well have agreed with miss but the nation also wanted a very close look Al the creature who had wrought All this us pictures became sensational Box office and she was quickly in demand by producers at very fancy she made Butterfield 8 and Sud Denly last then proceeded to London to Start work on budgeted at a modest 18 million of which million was to go to Liz had no sooner arrived in England than she came Down with a mysterious Luzi health has never been whether it is bad bad manage ment or bad her various ill Nesses have caused producers much pain in the Region of the former husband Mike Wilding once she lust seems allergic to Good director Richard Brooks if she opens a Beer she cuts herself if Here is a chair in the Middle of a she trips Over it while talking Over her in the course of this sickness being dal nosed and us was in and out of the and she and Spyros then head of nth Cen suffered great for after us had a tooth pulled some weeks later and her fever it was revealed that Fox was out something like million and that the insurance companies who were supposed to cover such contingencies were Balking at coughing up the by Skouras and a new Joseph were ready to sail Down the Nile again with then us came Down with a Little cold by March it had turned into once again us returned to the hos and this time it was More than a the disease became Liz had trouble an operation was performed and a tube was inserted into her her personal physician told the i believe the Odds Are nearly four to one against re Elizabeth Taylor May have her faults but Lack of will Power is cer Finly not one of she desperately wanted to live and she put up a terrific on March her doctor could she is out of her illness and recovery won her the sympathy of the she was popularly believed to have rained deep spiritual resources through her confrontation with disease and with this idea in the hers of the Academy of picture arts and sciences voted her an acad Emy when she heard Yul Bryn Ner make the announcement she Stag gered weakly to the clutched the Oscar and thank thank with All my after a summer spent recuperating and telling reporters about love and Eddie value privacy the quiet life with Eddie and the above All and what it All meant have a deep understanding of god and religion it was on to Cleopatra and Richard t is said that Burton looked around the Cleopatra set one Day and sold to no one in particular about Why is this Guy always standing around like a it is also said that when Liz heard about this remark she agreed that Eddie hanging around like a Eddie had Little else to his own career had dwindled since he had mar ried and shortly before they left California it had been announced that Fisher was turning into his wife that last resort of Hollywood at any who had a reputation As a love pm and leave pm ladles presented a somewhat More masculine image in Mark Antony Armor than Eddie soon the aggressive roman photographers were cheer fully invading everyone privacy and it became evident that something was then Sybil Richards showed up in Rome and Eddie returned to the the excitement raised hell with us after a can of she become violently causing director a Anklewicz to i dont care u she Falls la love with Mao As Long As she finishes this the tumult and the shouting had died Down u colled for her Louis and arranged to divorce Burton Sepa rated from his and he and us went on to Moke another picture in with All the private hardly anyone noticed that Cleopatra bad 0 Nauy been finished at an estimated Cost of 155 the every aspect of this him has been and talked about except the picture i Felt like whoever directed our american at Fords theater on the night Lincoln shot but it had All bean Tor the nth Century worried stockholders Bob Hope everybody win go to see Cleopatra to tee Uthe egyptians lived it up the Way they do to modern As for Elizabeth there is no telling what the future will the Only Safe prediction that whatever she docs will continue to make it has been a Long journey from Lassie come Home and National velvet to Cleopatra and Richard pro Ducer Pandro who has known her since her Days with the summed it up she has gone from a girl who Only wanted a to a woman who wants the the stars and stripes 13