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shooting script for sale on EBAY , He talks about his life and gives me some pointers on capturing lightening in bottle and waiting 5 seconds before U say CUT! k e maillet 
,in 1924 if it was wagner it was L. Melchior. 
His son is married to my most colorful customer Cleo Baldon a famous designer of furnishing & landscaping. They live in the hills of West Hollywood next to the infamous hotel where Crawford & Gable had their long term affair thruout their lives. Ib was a spooky figure, a OSS officer in WWII he later returned to show business. 
About the author Ib Melchior as well as being a best-selling author, is also a motion picture Writer-director-producer In Hollywood with some twelve feature films and numerous T.V shows and documentaries to his credit. He was born and educated in Denmark majoring in literature and languages and graduated from the university of Copenhagen. He then joined a British Theatrical company: The English players, with headquarters in parts, France, as an actor and toured Europe with this troupe, becoming state manager and Co-director of the company. Just prior to the outbreak of World War 11 in europe, he came to the United States with this company to do a Broadway play. Then followed a stint In the Stage Managing Department of Radio City Music Hall and the Center neater ice Shows in New York, and when Pearl FBI was attacked he volunteered No services to the US Armed force. He served with the |cloak-and-dagger OSS for a while and was then transferred to the U5 Military Intelligence Service. He spent two years in European Theater of operations as a military intelligence Investigator attached to the Counter Intelligence Corps. For his work In the FFO, among other hones he # was decorated by the US Army as well as by the King of Denmark, and was subsequently awarded the Knight Commander crop of the Militant Order of St. Brlgitte of Sweden. All the war he became active in television and began his writing career. He has directed over 500 'I'V shows both live and filmed, from the Musical "The Perry Como show" on CBS-TV on which show be served as director for the three and a half years; to the dramatic documentary series, one March of Medicine on NBC-TV. He has served as director or in a production capacity on eight feature motion pictures In Hollywood, including AIP' s unusual The Time Travelers, which he both wrote are directed. Besides his extensive career as a director, Ib Melchior 's background as an author and writer includes over a million words published in story and article in many national magazines including LIFE, as well as in several European periodicals; some of his work has been included in anthologies here and abroad. He has also written a couple of legitimate plays for the stage: one being Hour of Vengeance- a dramatization on the ancient Amlet legend that was the original source for Hamlet This play was produced at the Globe Theater in Los Angeles, and Melchior was honored with the Shakespeare Society of America ' s Hamlet Award for Excellence in Playwriting, 1982. He has also translated and narrated a cassette album of several of the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. Melchior has won several national awards for his TV and documentary film short subjects that he wrote, directed and produced, and he has written several scripts for various TV series including Men Into Space and The Outer limits. Among his twelve feature films are "Ambush Bay' a motion picture with a World War II background filmed in the Philippines for United Artists, as well as Robinson Crusoe on Mars for Paramount, and several other films with a science fiction theme, such as the cult film "The Angry Red Planet which he both wrote and directed. ln 1976 he was awarded the GOLDEN SCROLL for best writing by the Academy of Science Fiction As creator of Space Family Robinson / Lost In Space served as Special Advisor on the Lost In Space feature motion picture, Prelude Pictures/New Line, 1998. Ib Melchior is the author of the best-selling, critically acclaimed novels based on his own experience as a CIC agent, Order of Battler "Sleeper Agents ''The Halgerloch Project, The watchdog of Abaddon' and the Marcus Device, all published by Harper & Row; The tombstone cipher publish by Bantam; ''Eva'' V-3 and Code Name: Grand Guignol'' published by Dood Mead; Steps end Stairways with Cleo Baldon published by Rizzoliz and Quest Hitlers Werewolves and Case by Case'' (biographical) published by Presidio Press. Melchlor's novels have been published in translations in twenty-five countries. Current publications , Reflections on the Pool California Design for Swimming ( with Cleo Balden), Rizzoli 1997; The Golden Years of Bayreuth", Baskerville Publishers, 2003 Ib Melchior lives In a two story Mediterranean-style home in the Hollywood Hills He is an avid collector of Military Miniatures and Historical Documents. He Is married to the prominent designer Cleo Baldon and has two sons He is the son of the late Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior His biography lb Melchior Man of Imagination", By Robert Skotak was published in 2000 by Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. |
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He was also the creator of the original "Space Family Robinson,"(1960)- a screenplay, which became Irwin Allen's Lost in Space TV series. Melchior was never credited for the creation, until the details were exposed in Ed Shifres' Space Family Robinson: The True Story (Windsor House - 1996) and re-published as Lost in Space: The True Story (Windsor House-1998). The book was extremely controversial and earned Melchior a monetary settlement and recognition as the creator of what became Lost in Space. The book was critically-acclaimed with excellent reviews from Hollywood notable writers.
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Secret Agent Man
There's a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger.
With every move he makes,
Another chance he takes.
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow. Chorus:
Secret Agent Man
Secret Agent Man
They've given you a number.
And taken 'way your name.
(Look out!)
Beware of pretty faces you may find.
A pretty face may hide an evil mind.
Ooh, careful what you say:
Don't give yourself away.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow. (Chorus)You're sunnin' on the Riviera one day,
Then bleedin' in a Bombay alley next day.
Oh, don't let the wrong word slip.
While kissin' persuasive lips.
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow. (Chorus)
Written by P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri. Lyrics are copyright MCA Music.
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This movie was written on SPEC with the condition if accepted Ib be paid just scale & he would direct it. Ib had directed the top TV show in america for three yrs "Perry Como" in NY but couldn't get in Directors Guild.
This movie which came just after "Forbidden Planet" but yrs before his "Lost In Space" was developted by Irwin Allen as a TV series pioneered the theme which "Alien" by Ridley Scott used with Ripley as the ultimate female survivor in outer space.
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Established in 1919, the first restaurant in Hollywood, Musso & Frank's has long been a hangout for screenwriters and assorted celebrities. Since the Writer's Guild was located nearby on Cherokee, it became a favorite watering hole of writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner (who mixed his own mint julips here), John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler - even Ernest Hemingway. "Sadly, most of these legendary authors were lured to Hollywood by studio money, and out of their element, many of them ended up drinking their lives away at the bar here.
TRIVIA FR: IMDB The Angry Red Planet (1960) Director Ib Melchior was given just 9 days to shoot the film, on a budget of $200,000. The 40-foot alien monster was actually a marionette about 15 inches high. It was essentially a combination of a rat, bat, spider, and crab. The alien monster is the same one featured on the cover of the album "Walk Among Us" (1982) by The Misfits. The "Cinemagic" process, used for all scenes on the surface of Mars, was the result of an attempt by producer Norman Maurer to turn live-action footage directly into hand-drawn animation - or to simulate that. This would enable hand-drawn backgrounds to look as real (or as unreal) as the live action footage. It didn't have that effect here, of course. But see The Three Stooges in Orbit (1962) for Maurer's second (and failed) attempt at the same process.
QUOTES: Martian Voice: Men of Earth, we of the planet Mars give you this warning. Listen carefully and remember. We have known your planet Earth since the first creature crawled out of the primeval slime of your seas to become man. For millennia, we have followed your progress, for centuries, we have watched you, listened to your radio signals and learned your speech and your culture. And now, you have invaded our home. Technological adults, but spiritual and emotional infants. We kept you here deciding your fate. Had the lower forms of life of our planet destroyed you, we would not have interfered. But you survived. Your civilization has not progressed beyond destruction, war and violence against yourselves and others. Do as you will to your own and to your planet, but remember this warning - Do Not Return To Mars. You will be permitted to leave for this sole purpose - Carry The Warning To Earth. Do Not Come Here. We can and will destroy you, all life on your planet, if you do not heed us. You have seen us, been permitted to glimpse our world. Go now. Warn mankind not to return unbidden.
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The first manned flight to Mars the rocketship MR-1, returns to Earth after being thought lost in space. Attempts to raise the crew via radio fail, so a decision is made to land the spacecraft under remote control.
Two survivors are found on board, Dr. Iris Ryan (Naura Hayden) and Colonel Tom O'Bannion (Gerald Mohr), the latter's arm covered with a strange alien growth. Racing against time to find a cure for his condition, Dr. Ryan recalls the mission's fateful journey.
After landing on Mars, the well-armed crew set out to explore the planet's red-tinted surface. They find carnivorous plants, and are attacked at every turn by horrific creatures, including a huge amoeba with a rotating eye. Battling for their lives, the survivors make it back to the ship and ultimately receive a warning from the Martians never to return.
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