Saltzman, Harry

Saltzman, Harry. 2007. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2nd Edition. Detroit Macmillan Reference USA. 

To market the Bond films, EON productions (which produced 23 of the 26 Bond pictures) created a dynamic masculine brand identity for the character of James Bond. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, the initial producers of the series, brought to the screen a solid male personality accompanied by a lifestyle that spotlighted the foibidden world of bachelorhood, sexual voyeurism, and adventure. Amid the ideological-based advertising codes, in particular overt female sexuality, the Bond persona showcased a steady focus on trysts with beauty queens and actresses to spark viewer interest and facilitate long-term loyalty. As a result, the Bond series exploded into a financial boom reaching 2.5 billion in ticket sales (Streitmatter, 2004 31). 

Sometime between November, 1962, and early the following spring, Ian Fleming sent word to Felton and MGM that he could not continue with the Solo project. The reasons given were ill health and certain pressures. More probable was that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, producers of the Bond films, were unhappy with Fleming s involvement in a project outside of their EON Productions (Felton, 1982 RoUe, 1992). 

Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson. EON Productions was originally owned by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. 

Broccoh s future partner, Harry Saltzman, was also finding success in British independent filmmaking. Along with Royal Comt director Tony Richardson and successful playwright John Osborne, Saltzman went on to form Woodfall films in 1958. Much of their success came from stage to screen transfers of plays such as Look Back In Anger, The Entertainer ... 

Lazenby was offered a seven picture deal, which remained open to him after the release of On Her Majesty s Secret Service in December 1969. With the coming of the end of the decade Lazenby took rather poor advice when he did not reprise the role, even when the money offer had been improved. He told a British national newspaper in 2002 that The advice fi om people I trusted wasn t good James Bond is over, hippies are here, plus its Sean Coimery s gig. Harry Saltzman offered me one million dollars to do another. He was embarrassed that United Artists didn t know I had signed (Metro, 2002 13). 

Harry Saltzman, co-producer of nine Bond films, had expressed great concern regarding the heavy technological turn the films had taken, particularly in the 1970s (McCarthy, 1987 80). After Saltzman and fellow co-producer Albert Broccoli parted company in 1975, the technological emphasis in the series increased with the production of The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. As Saltzman later lamented in 1987 ... 

McCarthy, Todd. Harry Saltzman Recalls Early Coolness to Bond Features. Variety. 327, no. 3 (1987) 57. 

When Ian Fleming s hero attracted the interest of Harry Saltzman and... 

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