an actress, known for From Russia with Love (1963). She was married to Harry Saltzman. She died on January 31, 1980 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
The man who helped bring Ian Fleming's dashing secret agent James Bond to film is remembered by his children as a loving husband who abandoned the lucrative franchise and skipped Los Angeles for St. Petersburg so he could devote more time to his wife.
The late Harry Saltzman, in other words, was the antithesis of the British agent, who romanced different women in each Bond film — 23 of them, so far.
As film No. 24 is prepared for release late next year, daughter Hilary Saltzman said her father would be delighted at its return to the roots he helped establish. "Spectre" is the name of the movie and the villainous organization featured in the first Bond film, 1962's "Dr. No." The evil doctor is back to battle Bond again, too.
Still, Saltzman's interest in the Bond franchise never strayed far from making a better life for his wife.
"He was deeply in love with my mom, Jacqueline," said Hilary Saltzman, 52, of Quebec, a 1980 graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg. "I was very much lucky to grow up around such romance."
Saltzman recalled a story her parents liked to share about the first Christmas they spent together dating in Paris. It was years before the Bond films, and her parents had little money.
For a present, her father drew her mother detailed pictures of all the jewels he would one day buy her.
He later made good on the promise.
He produced the first nine Bond movies, each was well received and financially successful as the one before. Yet he walked away from the franchise following the 1974 release of "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Bond historians have many theories about why. The most prevalent are financial woes, forcing him to sell his rights to the franchise, and disagreements with production partner Albert Broccoli.
There is a bit of truth in each, his daughter said, but the main reason was that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. He left the films behind to care for her and find a cure.
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They moved to St. Petersburg from England in 1976 because it offered solitude as opposed to the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. They just wanted to be together.
Four years later, Jacqueline Saltzman died in their St. Petersburg home. Two days later, her husband moved back to England.
"He could not bear to be in the same house that she died in," Hillary Saltzman said.
He only returned occasionally, to visit his children, who were still in school in the area. Hilary Saltzman's older brother Steven was at the University of South Florida, and her younger brother Christopher attended Shorecrest with her.
Her parents met in Paris. The Canadian-born producer had moved there in the early 1950s.
He was a pursuing a career in show business; she was from Romania and finding steady work as a model.
She was dating one of his friends.
"My dad's friend had a date with her, but he had to suddenly go out of town," Hilary Saltzman said. "There were no cell phones, obviously, and he could not reach her so he asked my father to meet her where they were supposed to have dinner and let her know. And the rest is history."
He launched his career as a film producer in 1956 with "The Iron Petticoat" starring Bob Hope, and would produce four more films before "Dr. No."
He discovered Bond in the book "Goldfinger," the seventh novel in author Fleming's series.
He negotiated the rights to the stories and partnered with Broccoli.
Wife Jacqueline appeared as an extra in the second Bond film, "From Russia With Love," and if you look closely you can see daughter Hilary, too, she quipped.
Her mother has just learned she was pregnant.
"I grew up on the set of James Bond," Hilary Saltzman said.
Her father used the same crew for all nine movies and they became her second family.
"It was a wonderful time. I loved sitting in one of the large director's chairs and watching as actors walked into the makeup and wardrobe room as regular people and then walked out as these amazingly colorful characters."
On her 11th birthday, her father threw her a birthday party on the set of "Live and Let Die'" complete with voodoo men and women from the cast singing and dancing, "Happy Birthday."
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Brother Steven, 54, a 1984 graduate of USF, now lives in Monaco. He recalls the role he played choosing the film's title song.
His dad asked what he thought of a song Paul McCartney sent to him for consideration.
"I told him I loved it," Steven Saltzman said. "And he just picked up the phone, made a call and said, 'OK, we're going with it.' "
But Harry Saltzman's career took him away from their home in England often, sometimes for weeks at a time. The children remained behind so they did not miss school. Their mother Jacqueline always went.
"My parents could not bear to be separated," Hilary Saltzman said. "They loved each other too much, perhaps to our detriment sometimes."
They began visiting St. Petersburg in the late 1960s, when Jacqueline Saltzman's sister moved to the area.
They would vacation here in summer, taking fishing trips and visiting attractions such as the beach, Busch Gardens and Sunken Gardens.
They fell in love with the area and built a summer home in Venetian Isles, so large that today three homes occupy the same site.
Then, in the early 1970s, Jacqueline Saltzman was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Soon after the release of "The Man With the Golden Gun," Harry Saltzman sold his rights to the Bond franchise.
Around that time, said son Steven, England increased its income taxes so his father decided to move to St. Petersburg full time.
The family soon created quite a stir here.
On trips to Busch Gardens, they sometimes brought along their friends, the royal family. Actors often came to visit, and the British paparazzi would follow.
Hilary Saltzman said she was often embarrassed when her friends, unaccustomed to celebrity, would squeal in delight when met a star at her house.
"My father had 10 phone lines put into the house," Steven Saltzman said. "That alone caused a stir with the phone company. They had never heard of such a request."
While a student at USF, Steven Saltzman hosted a jazz radio show at WMNF in the station's first year, 1979.
News director Rob Lorei, with WMNF from the start, said he could always tell when the son of the wealthy producer was at the station.
"He may be the only volunteer in the history of WMNF who drove a new Cadillac," Lorei said. "He was very giving, too. We used to hand out piles of records we didn't need. But Steven would instead grab a pile and give us a nice donation in exchange for them. He wanted to support the radio station without it seeming like charity."
Lorei also remembers Steven Saltzman holding court in Hyde Park restaurants, surrounded by women, for three-hour lunches.
"He was known to throw some wild parties. I'll leave it at that."
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Still, during their four years together in St. Petersburg before Jacqueline Saltzman's death in 1980, the family turned more toward a traditional lifestyle, her daughter said.
Without the five-star restaurants of London nearby, Jacqueline learned to cook.
Her husband took to spending hours in his library or by the pool reading. They took more family fishing trips.
The parents still traveled a lot, but for a different reason: They were seeking a cure for cancer.
They flew around the world to visit with specialists in both traditional and alternative medicine. They met with India's famed spiritual healer Sai Baba.
Their father went to Tyrone Square Mall to see "The Spy Who Loved Me," the first Bond film made without him. He said he liked it but thought the film missed him.
"But I don't know if he missed being a part of it," Steven Saltzman said.
Added daughter Hilary, "I think his mind was on my mother's illness."
The siblings said their father's only concern was their mother until the day she died. Even then, they don't think he ever went long without thinking about her.
"They were always together," Hilary Saltzman said. "It must have been so odd for her to suddenly not be with him."
After Steven Saltzman graduated from USF, he returned to Europe.
Younger brother Christopher decided to transfer to a boarding school in Switzerland.
Hilary Saltzman attended USF for a year, but her father asked that she return to London to be with him.
"He was lonely," she said. "He missed his kids."
The St. Petersburg home was sold in 1982 to a developer. It was demolished a year later.
Harry Saltzman produced just one film after his wife died, "Time of the Gypsies," in 1988.
He married again and died in Paris in 1994.
"A piece of him died the day my mother did," Hilary Saltzman said. "He was never the same man again. It was sad. But I guess we would all be so lucky to be as in love with anyone as my father was my mother."
The man who helped bring Ian Fleming's dashing secret agent James Bond to film is remembered by his children as a loving husband who abandoned the lucrative franchise and skipped Los Angeles for St. Petersburg so he could devote more time to his wife.
The late Harry Saltzman, in other words, was the antithesis of the British agent, who romanced different women in each Bond film — 23 of them, so far.
As film No. 24 is prepared for release late next year, daughter Hilary Saltzman said her father would be delighted at its return to the roots he helped establish. "Spectre" is the name of the movie and the villainous organization featured in the first Bond film, 1962's "Dr. No." The evil doctor is back to battle Bond again, too.
Still, Saltzman's interest in the Bond franchise never strayed far from making a better life for his wife.
"He was deeply in love with my mom, Jacqueline," said Hilary Saltzman, 52, of Quebec, a 1980 graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg. "I was very much lucky to grow up around such romance."
Saltzman recalled a story her parents liked to share about the first Christmas they spent together dating in Paris. It was years before the Bond films, and her parents had little money.
For a present, her father drew her mother detailed pictures of all the jewels he would one day buy her.
He later made good on the promise.
He produced the first nine Bond movies, each was well received and financially successful as the one before. Yet he walked away from the franchise following the 1974 release of "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Bond historians have many theories about why. The most prevalent are financial woes, forcing him to sell his rights to the franchise, and disagreements with production partner Albert Broccoli.
There is a bit of truth in each, his daughter said, but the main reason was that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. He left the films behind to care for her and find a cure.
❖ ❖ ❖
They moved to St. Petersburg from England in 1976 because it offered solitude as opposed to the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. They just wanted to be together.
Four years later, Jacqueline Saltzman died in their St. Petersburg home. Two days later, her husband moved back to England.
"He could not bear to be in the same house that she died in," Hillary Saltzman said.
He only returned occasionally, to visit his children, who were still in school in the area. Hilary Saltzman's older brother Steven was at the University of South Florida, and her younger brother Christopher attended Shorecrest with her.
Her parents met in Paris. The Canadian-born producer had moved there in the early 1950s.
He was a pursuing a career in show business; she was from Romania and finding steady work as a model.
She was dating one of his friends.
"My dad's friend had a date with her, but he had to suddenly go out of town," Hilary Saltzman said. "There were no cell phones, obviously, and he could not reach her so he asked my father to meet her where they were supposed to have dinner and let her know. And the rest is history."
He launched his career as a film producer in 1956 with "The Iron Petticoat" starring Bob Hope, and would produce four more films before "Dr. No."
He discovered Bond in the book "Goldfinger," the seventh novel in author Fleming's series.
He negotiated the rights to the stories and partnered with Broccoli.
Wife Jacqueline appeared as an extra in the second Bond film, "From Russia With Love," and if you look closely you can see daughter Hilary, too, she quipped.
Her mother has just learned she was pregnant.
"I grew up on the set of James Bond," Hilary Saltzman said.
Her father used the same crew for all nine movies and they became her second family.
"It was a wonderful time. I loved sitting in one of the large director's chairs and watching as actors walked into the makeup and wardrobe room as regular people and then walked out as these amazingly colorful characters."
On her 11th birthday, her father threw her a birthday party on the set of "Live and Let Die'" complete with voodoo men and women from the cast singing and dancing, "Happy Birthday."
❖ ❖ ❖
Brother Steven, 54, a 1984 graduate of USF, now lives in Monaco. He recalls the role he played choosing the film's title song.
His dad asked what he thought of a song Paul McCartney sent to him for consideration.
"I told him I loved it," Steven Saltzman said. "And he just picked up the phone, made a call and said, 'OK, we're going with it.' "
But Harry Saltzman's career took him away from their home in England often, sometimes for weeks at a time. The children remained behind so they did not miss school. Their mother Jacqueline always went.
"My parents could not bear to be separated," Hilary Saltzman said. "They loved each other too much, perhaps to our detriment sometimes."
They began visiting St. Petersburg in the late 1960s, when Jacqueline Saltzman's sister moved to the area.
They would vacation here in summer, taking fishing trips and visiting attractions such as the beach, Busch Gardens and Sunken Gardens.
They fell in love with the area and built a summer home in Venetian Isles, so large that today three homes occupy the same site.
Then, in the early 1970s, Jacqueline Saltzman was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Soon after the release of "The Man With the Golden Gun," Harry Saltzman sold his rights to the Bond franchise.
Around that time, said son Steven, England increased its income taxes so his father decided to move to St. Petersburg full time.
The family soon created quite a stir here.
On trips to Busch Gardens, they sometimes brought along their friends, the royal family. Actors often came to visit, and the British paparazzi would follow.
Hilary Saltzman said she was often embarrassed when her friends, unaccustomed to celebrity, would squeal in delight when met a star at her house.
"My father had 10 phone lines put into the house," Steven Saltzman said. "That alone caused a stir with the phone company. They had never heard of such a request."
While a student at USF, Steven Saltzman hosted a jazz radio show at WMNF in the station's first year, 1979.
News director Rob Lorei, with WMNF from the start, said he could always tell when the son of the wealthy producer was at the station.
"He may be the only volunteer in the history of WMNF who drove a new Cadillac," Lorei said. "He was very giving, too. We used to hand out piles of records we didn't need. But Steven would instead grab a pile and give us a nice donation in exchange for them. He wanted to support the radio station without it seeming like charity."
Lorei also remembers Steven Saltzman holding court in Hyde Park restaurants, surrounded by women, for three-hour lunches.
"He was known to throw some wild parties. I'll leave it at that."
❖ ❖ ❖
Still, during their four years together in St. Petersburg before Jacqueline Saltzman's death in 1980, the family turned more toward a traditional lifestyle, her daughter said.
Without the five-star restaurants of London nearby, Jacqueline learned to cook.
Her husband took to spending hours in his library or by the pool reading. They took more family fishing trips.
The parents still traveled a lot, but for a different reason: They were seeking a cure for cancer.
They flew around the world to visit with specialists in both traditional and alternative medicine. They met with India's famed spiritual healer Sai Baba.
Their father went to Tyrone Square Mall to see "The Spy Who Loved Me," the first Bond film made without him. He said he liked it but thought the film missed him.
"But I don't know if he missed being a part of it," Steven Saltzman said.
Added daughter Hilary, "I think his mind was on my mother's illness."
The siblings said their father's only concern was their mother until the day she died. Even then, they don't think he ever went long without thinking about her.
"They were always together," Hilary Saltzman said. "It must have been so odd for her to suddenly not be with him."
After Steven Saltzman graduated from USF, he returned to Europe.
Younger brother Christopher decided to transfer to a boarding school in Switzerland.
Hilary Saltzman attended USF for a year, but her father asked that she return to London to be with him.
"He was lonely," she said. "He missed his kids."
The St. Petersburg home was sold in 1982 to a developer. It was demolished a year later.
Harry Saltzman produced just one film after his wife died, "Time of the Gypsies," in 1988.
He married again and died in Paris in 1994.
"A piece of him died the day my mother did," Hilary Saltzman said. "He was never the same man again. It was sad. But I guess we would all be so lucky to be as in love with anyone as my father was my mother."
an actress, known for From Russia with Love (1963). She was married to Harry Saltzman. She died on January 31, 1980 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
The man who helped bring Ian Fleming's dashing secret agent James Bond to film is remembered by his children as a loving husband who abandoned the lucrative franchise and skipped Los Angeles for St. Petersburg so he could devote more time to his wife.
The late Harry Saltzman, in other words, was the antithesis of the British agent, who romanced different women in each Bond film — 23 of them, so far.
As film No. 24 is prepared for release late next year, daughter Hilary Saltzman said her father would be delighted at its return to the roots he helped establish. "Spectre" is the name of the movie and the villainous organization featured in the first Bond film, 1962's "Dr. No." The evil doctor is back to battle Bond again, too.
Still, Saltzman's interest in the Bond franchise never strayed far from making a better life for his wife.
"He was deeply in love with my mom, Jacqueline," said Hilary Saltzman, 52, of Quebec, a 1980 graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg. "I was very much lucky to grow up around such romance."
Saltzman recalled a story her parents liked to share about the first Christmas they spent together dating in Paris. It was years before the Bond films, and her parents had little money.
For a present, her father drew her mother detailed pictures of all the jewels he would one day buy her.
He later made good on the promise.
He produced the first nine Bond movies, each was well received and financially successful as the one before. Yet he walked away from the franchise following the 1974 release of "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Bond historians have many theories about why. The most prevalent are financial woes, forcing him to sell his rights to the franchise, and disagreements with production partner Albert Broccoli.
There is a bit of truth in each, his daughter said, but the main reason was that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. He left the films behind to care for her and find a cure.
❖ ❖ ❖
They moved to St. Petersburg from England in 1976 because it offered solitude as opposed to the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. They just wanted to be together.
Four years later, Jacqueline Saltzman died in their St. Petersburg home. Two days later, her husband moved back to England.
"He could not bear to be in the same house that she died in," Hillary Saltzman said.
He only returned occasionally, to visit his children, who were still in school in the area. Hilary Saltzman's older brother Steven was at the University of South Florida, and her younger brother Christopher attended Shorecrest with her.
Her parents met in Paris. The Canadian-born producer had moved there in the early 1950s.
He was a pursuing a career in show business; she was from Romania and finding steady work as a model.
She was dating one of his friends.
"My dad's friend had a date with her, but he had to suddenly go out of town," Hilary Saltzman said. "There were no cell phones, obviously, and he could not reach her so he asked my father to meet her where they were supposed to have dinner and let her know. And the rest is history."
He launched his career as a film producer in 1956 with "The Iron Petticoat" starring Bob Hope, and would produce four more films before "Dr. No."
He discovered Bond in the book "Goldfinger," the seventh novel in author Fleming's series.
He negotiated the rights to the stories and partnered with Broccoli.
Wife Jacqueline appeared as an extra in the second Bond film, "From Russia With Love," and if you look closely you can see daughter Hilary, too, she quipped.
Her mother has just learned she was pregnant.
"I grew up on the set of James Bond," Hilary Saltzman said.
Her father used the same crew for all nine movies and they became her second family.
"It was a wonderful time. I loved sitting in one of the large director's chairs and watching as actors walked into the makeup and wardrobe room as regular people and then walked out as these amazingly colorful characters."
On her 11th birthday, her father threw her a birthday party on the set of "Live and Let Die'" complete with voodoo men and women from the cast singing and dancing, "Happy Birthday."
❖ ❖ ❖
Brother Steven, 54, a 1984 graduate of USF, now lives in Monaco. He recalls the role he played choosing the film's title song.
His dad asked what he thought of a song Paul McCartney sent to him for consideration.
"I told him I loved it," Steven Saltzman said. "And he just picked up the phone, made a call and said, 'OK, we're going with it.' "
But Harry Saltzman's career took him away from their home in England often, sometimes for weeks at a time. The children remained behind so they did not miss school. Their mother Jacqueline always went.
"My parents could not bear to be separated," Hilary Saltzman said. "They loved each other too much, perhaps to our detriment sometimes."
They began visiting St. Petersburg in the late 1960s, when Jacqueline Saltzman's sister moved to the area.
They would vacation here in summer, taking fishing trips and visiting attractions such as the beach, Busch Gardens and Sunken Gardens.
They fell in love with the area and built a summer home in Venetian Isles, so large that today three homes occupy the same site.
Then, in the early 1970s, Jacqueline Saltzman was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Soon after the release of "The Man With the Golden Gun," Harry Saltzman sold his rights to the Bond franchise.
Around that time, said son Steven, England increased its income taxes so his father decided to move to St. Petersburg full time.
The family soon created quite a stir here.
On trips to Busch Gardens, they sometimes brought along their friends, the royal family. Actors often came to visit, and the British paparazzi would follow.
Hilary Saltzman said she was often embarrassed when her friends, unaccustomed to celebrity, would squeal in delight when met a star at her house.
"My father had 10 phone lines put into the house," Steven Saltzman said. "That alone caused a stir with the phone company. They had never heard of such a request."
While a student at USF, Steven Saltzman hosted a jazz radio show at WMNF in the station's first year, 1979.
News director Rob Lorei, with WMNF from the start, said he could always tell when the son of the wealthy producer was at the station.
"He may be the only volunteer in the history of WMNF who drove a new Cadillac," Lorei said. "He was very giving, too. We used to hand out piles of records we didn't need. But Steven would instead grab a pile and give us a nice donation in exchange for them. He wanted to support the radio station without it seeming like charity."
Lorei also remembers Steven Saltzman holding court in Hyde Park restaurants, surrounded by women, for three-hour lunches.
"He was known to throw some wild parties. I'll leave it at that."
❖ ❖ ❖
Still, during their four years together in St. Petersburg before Jacqueline Saltzman's death in 1980, the family turned more toward a traditional lifestyle, her daughter said.
Without the five-star restaurants of London nearby, Jacqueline learned to cook.
Her husband took to spending hours in his library or by the pool reading. They took more family fishing trips.
The parents still traveled a lot, but for a different reason: They were seeking a cure for cancer.
They flew around the world to visit with specialists in both traditional and alternative medicine. They met with India's famed spiritual healer Sai Baba.
Their father went to Tyrone Square Mall to see "The Spy Who Loved Me," the first Bond film made without him. He said he liked it but thought the film missed him.
"But I don't know if he missed being a part of it," Steven Saltzman said.
Added daughter Hilary, "I think his mind was on my mother's illness."
The siblings said their father's only concern was their mother until the day she died. Even then, they don't think he ever went long without thinking about her.
"They were always together," Hilary Saltzman said. "It must have been so odd for her to suddenly not be with him."
After Steven Saltzman graduated from USF, he returned to Europe.
Younger brother Christopher decided to transfer to a boarding school in Switzerland.
Hilary Saltzman attended USF for a year, but her father asked that she return to London to be with him.
"He was lonely," she said. "He missed his kids."
The St. Petersburg home was sold in 1982 to a developer. It was demolished a year later.
Harry Saltzman produced just one film after his wife died, "Time of the Gypsies," in 1988.
He married again and died in Paris in 1994.
"A piece of him died the day my mother did," Hilary Saltzman said. "He was never the same man again. It was sad. But I guess we would all be so lucky to be as in love with anyone as my father was my mother."
The man who helped bring Ian Fleming's dashing secret agent James Bond to film is remembered by his children as a loving husband who abandoned the lucrative franchise and skipped Los Angeles for St. Petersburg so he could devote more time to his wife.
The late Harry Saltzman, in other words, was the antithesis of the British agent, who romanced different women in each Bond film — 23 of them, so far.
As film No. 24 is prepared for release late next year, daughter Hilary Saltzman said her father would be delighted at its return to the roots he helped establish. "Spectre" is the name of the movie and the villainous organization featured in the first Bond film, 1962's "Dr. No." The evil doctor is back to battle Bond again, too.
Still, Saltzman's interest in the Bond franchise never strayed far from making a better life for his wife.
"He was deeply in love with my mom, Jacqueline," said Hilary Saltzman, 52, of Quebec, a 1980 graduate of Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg. "I was very much lucky to grow up around such romance."
Saltzman recalled a story her parents liked to share about the first Christmas they spent together dating in Paris. It was years before the Bond films, and her parents had little money.
For a present, her father drew her mother detailed pictures of all the jewels he would one day buy her.
He later made good on the promise.
He produced the first nine Bond movies, each was well received and financially successful as the one before. Yet he walked away from the franchise following the 1974 release of "The Man with the Golden Gun."
Bond historians have many theories about why. The most prevalent are financial woes, forcing him to sell his rights to the franchise, and disagreements with production partner Albert Broccoli.
There is a bit of truth in each, his daughter said, but the main reason was that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. He left the films behind to care for her and find a cure.
❖ ❖ ❖
They moved to St. Petersburg from England in 1976 because it offered solitude as opposed to the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles. They just wanted to be together.
Four years later, Jacqueline Saltzman died in their St. Petersburg home. Two days later, her husband moved back to England.
"He could not bear to be in the same house that she died in," Hillary Saltzman said.
He only returned occasionally, to visit his children, who were still in school in the area. Hilary Saltzman's older brother Steven was at the University of South Florida, and her younger brother Christopher attended Shorecrest with her.
Her parents met in Paris. The Canadian-born producer had moved there in the early 1950s.
He was a pursuing a career in show business; she was from Romania and finding steady work as a model.
She was dating one of his friends.
"My dad's friend had a date with her, but he had to suddenly go out of town," Hilary Saltzman said. "There were no cell phones, obviously, and he could not reach her so he asked my father to meet her where they were supposed to have dinner and let her know. And the rest is history."
He launched his career as a film producer in 1956 with "The Iron Petticoat" starring Bob Hope, and would produce four more films before "Dr. No."
He discovered Bond in the book "Goldfinger," the seventh novel in author Fleming's series.
He negotiated the rights to the stories and partnered with Broccoli.
Wife Jacqueline appeared as an extra in the second Bond film, "From Russia With Love," and if you look closely you can see daughter Hilary, too, she quipped.
Her mother has just learned she was pregnant.
"I grew up on the set of James Bond," Hilary Saltzman said.
Her father used the same crew for all nine movies and they became her second family.
"It was a wonderful time. I loved sitting in one of the large director's chairs and watching as actors walked into the makeup and wardrobe room as regular people and then walked out as these amazingly colorful characters."
On her 11th birthday, her father threw her a birthday party on the set of "Live and Let Die'" complete with voodoo men and women from the cast singing and dancing, "Happy Birthday."
❖ ❖ ❖
Brother Steven, 54, a 1984 graduate of USF, now lives in Monaco. He recalls the role he played choosing the film's title song.
His dad asked what he thought of a song Paul McCartney sent to him for consideration.
"I told him I loved it," Steven Saltzman said. "And he just picked up the phone, made a call and said, 'OK, we're going with it.' "
But Harry Saltzman's career took him away from their home in England often, sometimes for weeks at a time. The children remained behind so they did not miss school. Their mother Jacqueline always went.
"My parents could not bear to be separated," Hilary Saltzman said. "They loved each other too much, perhaps to our detriment sometimes."
They began visiting St. Petersburg in the late 1960s, when Jacqueline Saltzman's sister moved to the area.
They would vacation here in summer, taking fishing trips and visiting attractions such as the beach, Busch Gardens and Sunken Gardens.
They fell in love with the area and built a summer home in Venetian Isles, so large that today three homes occupy the same site.
Then, in the early 1970s, Jacqueline Saltzman was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Soon after the release of "The Man With the Golden Gun," Harry Saltzman sold his rights to the Bond franchise.
Around that time, said son Steven, England increased its income taxes so his father decided to move to St. Petersburg full time.
The family soon created quite a stir here.
On trips to Busch Gardens, they sometimes brought along their friends, the royal family. Actors often came to visit, and the British paparazzi would follow.
Hilary Saltzman said she was often embarrassed when her friends, unaccustomed to celebrity, would squeal in delight when met a star at her house.
"My father had 10 phone lines put into the house," Steven Saltzman said. "That alone caused a stir with the phone company. They had never heard of such a request."
While a student at USF, Steven Saltzman hosted a jazz radio show at WMNF in the station's first year, 1979.
News director Rob Lorei, with WMNF from the start, said he could always tell when the son of the wealthy producer was at the station.
"He may be the only volunteer in the history of WMNF who drove a new Cadillac," Lorei said. "He was very giving, too. We used to hand out piles of records we didn't need. But Steven would instead grab a pile and give us a nice donation in exchange for them. He wanted to support the radio station without it seeming like charity."
Lorei also remembers Steven Saltzman holding court in Hyde Park restaurants, surrounded by women, for three-hour lunches.
"He was known to throw some wild parties. I'll leave it at that."
❖ ❖ ❖
Still, during their four years together in St. Petersburg before Jacqueline Saltzman's death in 1980, the family turned more toward a traditional lifestyle, her daughter said.
Without the five-star restaurants of London nearby, Jacqueline learned to cook.
Her husband took to spending hours in his library or by the pool reading. They took more family fishing trips.
The parents still traveled a lot, but for a different reason: They were seeking a cure for cancer.
They flew around the world to visit with specialists in both traditional and alternative medicine. They met with India's famed spiritual healer Sai Baba.
Their father went to Tyrone Square Mall to see "The Spy Who Loved Me," the first Bond film made without him. He said he liked it but thought the film missed him.
"But I don't know if he missed being a part of it," Steven Saltzman said.
Added daughter Hilary, "I think his mind was on my mother's illness."
The siblings said their father's only concern was their mother until the day she died. Even then, they don't think he ever went long without thinking about her.
"They were always together," Hilary Saltzman said. "It must have been so odd for her to suddenly not be with him."
After Steven Saltzman graduated from USF, he returned to Europe.
Younger brother Christopher decided to transfer to a boarding school in Switzerland.
Hilary Saltzman attended USF for a year, but her father asked that she return to London to be with him.
"He was lonely," she said. "He missed his kids."
The St. Petersburg home was sold in 1982 to a developer. It was demolished a year later.
Harry Saltzman produced just one film after his wife died, "Time of the Gypsies," in 1988.
He married again and died in Paris in 1994.
"A piece of him died the day my mother did," Hilary Saltzman said. "He was never the same man again. It was sad. But I guess we would all be so lucky to be as in love with anyone as my father was my mother."
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