Barry the Jerk
Posted on 09/24/2012 3:38:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
he title sequence to every James Bond movie from Dr. No to Live and Let Die begins with the credit “Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli present.” Over time, Broccoli, who died in 1996 and was known as Cubby, has come to be the more famous Bond producer. But it was Saltzman who, in 1961, originally secured the Bond-movie option from 007’s creator, the novelist Ian Fleming.
The Canadian-born Saltzman was a curious choice for Fleming to do a deal with—a respected but (prior to Bond) small-time producer best known for low-budget, black-and-white film adaptations of the John Osborne plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer. Why, you might wonder, would Fleming have entrusted his life’s work to this guy rather than, say, some deep-pocketed Technicolor specialist? A few years ago, two of Saltzman’s children, Hilary and Steven, gained startling insight into the Saltzman-Fleming relationship when Hilary inadvertently stumbled upon her father’s wartime files, as kept by the U.S. State Department.
Some background: In 2003, Hilary Saltzman was relocating from Los Angeles to Quebec and needed to get her Canadian-citizenship papers in order. In so doing, she hit a snag: the Canadian government required documentation on how and when her father, who died in 1994, had become a U.S. citizen. As I report in my article in the October issue of V.F., “The Birth of Bond,” Hilary’s seemingly benign request to pull her father’s citizenship documents set off alarms at the State Department.
I have been watching the Bond movies for the last two weeks.
My G-Sat’s Cinemax has been running ALL of the Bond movies
and repeating them several times. It is a real feast for Bond fans.
I am seeing some for the first time.
Did you see the one where he has to steel the Twinkie formula fro Hostess? That was amazing.
“Did you see the one where he has to steel the Twinkie formula fro Hostess?”
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No, they have not run that one yet.
What is the name again? Twinkies Are Forever? haha
*ping*
With Harry posted to London during at least part of the war, he could very well have met Fleming.
Harry Saltzman also produced “The Ipcress File”. Harry hit a rough patch in mid-seventies finacially and had to sell his interest in EON. When he died in 1994 his passing was hardly noticed.
Harry Saltzman was a high-ranking U.S. intelligence officer, his wartime activities classified.
Ian Fleming was a British intelligence Officer.
Interesting story - makes me think of SECRET AGENT MAN {men}!!
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