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    Jewell says that Broccoli was "lucky" in terms of how he got the Bond franchise. "Producer Harry Saltzman was the one who eventually locked up the rights to all of Ian Fleming's stories except for 'Casino Royale,'" " he says. "Then Saltzman couldn't get the money to produce the first Bond film, so he linked up with Cubby, who had a relationship with United Artists." Full Article at Los Angeles Times
    Producer Harry Saltzman was the one who eventually locked up the rights to all of Ian Fleming's stories except for 'Casino Royale,'
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
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Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, a Bond man all the way
  1. Then Saltzman couldn't get the money to produce the first Bond film, so he linked up with Cubby, who had a relationship with United Artists.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  2. Bond was bigger than the actor who played him.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  3. He said in 'Live and Let Die,' Bond is asleep in bed and he thinks Solitaire is in bed next to him, but he opens his eyes and a crocodile is in bed with him. I said, 'Harry? Why doesn't the crocodile eat him? 'He said, 'I don't know. You are the writer.' That was Harry.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  4. Harry would spew out like five ideas, and two of them were absolutely wonderful and three of them were horrible
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  5. For him [her father] it was always about putting all the money on the screen, and I think audiences have responded to that over the years. They know if they pay their money and give up their two hours, they are going to be taken on an adventure.
    Barbara Broccoli – Barbara Broccoli SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  6. and to develop the films in a way so that they would be timeless by adding this whole notion of SPECTRE, this worldwide criminal power-seeking organization that wanted to control everything. From that point on it was fairly easy to make the stories, then speak to the changes in the cultural climate.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  7. Cubby was the one behind the money, but then as time went on . . . Cubby was the one who really made everything click
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  8. He was a great family man
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago
  9. He was an agent. He worked briefly for Howard Hughes as a go-fer. He had such varied experiences in life in so many different departments that you were talking to a real guy who was wonderfully content. He really enjoyed himself.
    SOURCE: Los Angeles Times 3 weeks ago

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