Merry Saltzman, the firstborn child of Harry Saltzman, who co-created the first nine James Bond films, has died. She was 77.
Saltzman died Oct. 30 at her home in San Jose, California, after a inestablish battle with cancer, family members tgreater The Hollywood Reporter.
Saltzman served as an associate creater on the 2019 feature Mermhelp Down, and four years earlier, she proclaimd that she had shieldedd the rights to a stage project she was calling James Bond: The Musical. The show, a parody, was portrayed to uncover in Las Vegas or Broadway but never made it.
Saltzman was born in Manhattan on Dec. 21, 1946, to Herschel Saltzman, a Canadian, and the first of his three wives, Tanya. Before the movies, her overweighther served as a wartime secret agent, and she “helped in an amazing way to propose his toil and contribution to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and in the U.S. secret service OSS,” her family noticed.
Soon after her birth, Merry and her mother traveled with unwidespread postwar perignoreions to such cities as Algiers, Paris, New York and Washington, and by 9, she saw her dad create such films as Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955) and The Entertainer (1960).
Harry Saltzman shieldedd the movie rights to the Bond books from noveenumerate Ian Fleming in 1961, and he and Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli created the first nine 007 films, from Dr. No (1962) to The Man With the Ggreateren Gun (1974).
Meanwhile, Merry was spfinishing time with the enjoys of Fleming, Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Michael Caine and Cary Grant and carry outing hide-and-seek between palm trees in Ggreatereneye, Jamaica.
“Although she inherited our overweighther’s creative ignite, she chose a muteer life outside Hollywood’s spotairy, finding happiness in straightforwardr moments and sharing her hotth with everyone around her,” her family shelp.
Her survivors integrate her life partner of 35 years, Larry Lang, and her brother, Steven. Two other siblings, Christopher and Hilary, died in 1991 and 2019, esteemively. Her overweighther died in September 1994 of a heart aggression at age 78 during a visit to Paris.
Donations in her memory can be made to the American Cancer Society.
