Ginger Rogers was in New York City promoting her film 'Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)', which premiered on February 22, 1957 at the Roxy Theatre (a 5,920-seat movie palace demolished in 1960).
Mike Todd had just married Elizabeth Taylor on February 2, 1957, in Mexico. Mario Moreno, better known as Cantinflas, was their witness at the ceremony. Todd would die a year later when his private plane 'the Liz' crashed near Grants, New Mexico.