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Reproduction of any kind of the Richard Maibaum Papers is restricted. Any reproduction requests of drafts, treatments, scripts, or screenplays relating to James Bond films should be directed to Eon Productions and all other reproduction requests should be directed to Paul Maibaum paulmaibaum@mac.com
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Just for the sake of the line, I was heartbroken when they rejected it." Broccoli called in Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite Maibaum's screenplay and, in the process, Goldfinger's brother was scratched, and Ernst Stavros Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, returned. And, Maibaum says, his "smash ending" became "an interminable thing on an oil rig."
The Richard Maibaum Papers: The personal papers series contains an actors file, biographical material on Maibaum, clippings and correspondence; the film projects series includes materials such as screenplays and treatments, many of which Maibaum co-authored with Cyril Hume, clippings, reviews and correspondence; the Stage project series has playscripts, clippings and correspondence; the ...
Nov 9, 2012 · Richard Maibaum continued to work on the series in the 1970s (he did initial drafts for Diamonds Are Forever and The Spy Who Loved Me and a major rewrite on The Man with the Golden Gun), but the key writer for the Bond-lite era was Tom Mankiewicz-- the son of the Academy Award winning writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) and the nephew of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J ...
Of the sixteen films produced by Cubby Broccoli, Maibaum wrote or co-wrote thirteen. Clippings, correspondence, publicity material, articles, photographs, and other items complete this series. Some of Maibaum's earliest works are contained in Stage Projects, including his master's thesis, The Tree, which was produced at The University of Iowa ...
Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright, and screenwriter best known for his screenplay
Jan 7, 1991 · Richard Maibaum; Wrote Many of the James Bond Movie Scripts. By BURT A. FOLKART. Jan. 7, 1991 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. Richard Maibaum, a former stage actor who began writing scripts for ...
