Merry Saltzman, the firstborn youngster of Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the primary 9 James Bond movies, has died. She was 77.
Saltzman died Oct. 30 at her house in San Jose, California, after a quick battle with most cancers, relations informed The Hollywood Reporter.
Saltzman served as an affiliate producer on the 2019 characteristic Mermaid Down, and 4 years earlier, she introduced that she had secured the rights to a stage challenge she was calling James Bond: The Musical. The present, a parody, was designed to open in Las Vegas or Broadway however by no means made it.
Saltzman was born in Manhattan on Dec. 21, 1946, to Herschel Saltzman, a Canadian, and the primary of his three wives, Tanya. Earlier than the flicks, her father served as a wartime spy, and he or she “helped in an amazing way to enlighten his work and contribution to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and in the U.S. secret service OSS,” her household famous.
Quickly after her start, Merry and her mom traveled with uncommon postwar permissions to such cities as Algiers, Paris, New York and Washington, and by 9, she noticed her dad produce such movies as Captain Gallant of the Overseas Legion (1955) and The Entertainer (1960).
Harry Saltzman secured the film rights to the Bond books from novelist Ian Fleming in 1961, and he and Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli produced the primary 9 007 movies, from Dr. No (1962) to The Man With the Golden Gun (1974).
In the meantime, Merry was spending time with the likes of Fleming, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Michael Caine and Cary Grant and taking part in hide-and-seek between palm bushes in Goldeneye, Jamaica.
“Although she inherited our father’s creative spark, she chose a quieter life outside Hollywood’s spotlight, finding happiness in simpler moments and sharing her warmth with everyone around her,” her household mentioned.
Her survivors embody her life associate of 35 years, Larry Lang, and her brother, Steven. Two different siblings, Christopher and Hilary, died in 1991 and 2019, respectively. Her father died in September 1994 of a coronary heart assault at age 78 throughout a go to to Paris.
Donations in her reminiscence may be made to the American Most cancers Society.
