Taylor considered her next performance as Maggie the Cat in the screen adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958) a career "high point." But it coincided with one of the most difficult periods in her personal life. After completing "Raintree Country", she had divorced Wilding and married producer Mike Todd. She had completed only two weeks of filming in March 1958, when Todd was killed in a plane crash. Although she was devastated, pressure from the studio and the knowledge that Todd had large debts led Taylor to return to work only three weeks later. She later said that "in a way ... became Maggie", and that acting "was the only time I could function" in the weeks after Todd's death.