Dana Broccoli, the widow of movie producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and the president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, has died.
Broccoli, a novelist and theatrical producer, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
Danjaq, the film company that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman founded in 1961, bought the film rights not only to Fleming's Bond novels but to his whimsical novel "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which became a 1968 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.
Dana Broccoli became president of the Los Angeles-based Danjaq, which produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after her husband died in 1996.
The Bond films, now numbering 20, are the longest-running movie series of all time.
Dana Broccoli also was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. The musical opened in London's West End in 2002 and is still running. It is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.
Born Dana Natol in New York City in 1922, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall, where she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, with whom she had a son, Michael.
Broccoli, a novelist and theatrical producer, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
Danjaq, the film company that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman founded in 1961, bought the film rights not only to Fleming's Bond novels but to his whimsical novel "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which became a 1968 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.
Dana Broccoli became president of the Los Angeles-based Danjaq, which produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after her husband died in 1996.
The Bond films, now numbering 20, are the longest-running movie series of all time.
Dana Broccoli also was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. The musical opened in London's West End in 2002 and is still running. It is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.
Born Dana Natol in New York City in 1922, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall, where she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, with whom she had a son, Michael.
Dana Broccoli, the widow of movie producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and the president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, has died.
Broccoli, a novelist and theatrical producer, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
Danjaq, the film company that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman founded in 1961, bought the film rights not only to Fleming's Bond novels but to his whimsical novel "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which became a 1968 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.
Dana Broccoli became president of the Los Angeles-based Danjaq, which produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after her husband died in 1996.
The Bond films, now numbering 20, are the longest-running movie series of all time.
Dana Broccoli also was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. The musical opened in London's West End in 2002 and is still running. It is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.
Born Dana Natol in New York City in 1922, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall, where she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, with whom she had a son, Michael.
Broccoli, a novelist and theatrical producer, died of cancer Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
Danjaq, the film company that Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman founded in 1961, bought the film rights not only to Fleming's Bond novels but to his whimsical novel "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which became a 1968 movie starring Dick Van Dyke.
Dana Broccoli became president of the Los Angeles-based Danjaq, which produces the Bond films and co-owns them with MGM, after her husband died in 1996.
The Bond films, now numbering 20, are the longest-running movie series of all time.
Dana Broccoli also was the creative force behind turning "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" into a musical, for which she served as lead producer. The musical opened in London's West End in 2002 and is still running. It is scheduled to open on Broadway in spring 2005.
Born Dana Natol in New York City in 1922, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall, where she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, with whom she had a son, Michael.
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