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Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Oct 17, 2017 · For a significant number of movie stars, a career in pictures started instead with sexual exploitation on the “casting couch” of Harry Cohn, one of Hollywood’s most powerful—and brutal—men....
Harry Cohn. Producer: It Happened One Night. He was crude, uneducated, foul and, even on his best behavior, abrasive. No major studio executive of the so-called "Golden Age" was more loathed (although at times the dictatorial Samuel Goldwyn and the hard-nosed Jack L. Warner came close) than Harry Cohn.
Harry Cohn (born July 23, 1891, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died February 27, 1958, Phoenix, Ariz.) was the cofounder and president of Columbia Pictures and winner of 45 Academy Awards for films he produced.
Jul 15, 2023 · As the head of Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn earned a reputation as “the meanest man in Hollywood.” The stories around his conduct are the stuff of cinema legend. But despite the resentment he inspired, Mr. Cohn was also responsible for some of the greatest films in cinema history.
Feb 22, 2021 · That’s Harry Cohn, President of Columbia Pictures in 1946 as quoted in “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood” by Neal Gabler. The controversial studio head of Columbia Pictures Corporation, yesteryear’s Harvey Weinstein, started his tyrannical rule in Hollywood in 1919 and continued it till his death in 1958.
Harry Cohn. Producer: It Happened One Night. He was crude, uneducated, foul and, even on his best behavior, abrasive. No major studio executive of the so-called "Golden Age" was more loathed (although at times the dictatorial Samuel Goldwyn and the hard-nosed Jack L. Warner came close) than Harry Cohn.
Sep 22, 2011 · As an entrepreneurial businessman, Harry Cohn believed that his most important role in life was that of the head of Columbia Pictures. Accordingly, Cohn the man, the mogul, and the myth were fused together in a complex construction.
Born to Jewish tailor Joseph Cohn and his wife, Bella, a Polish immigrant, in New York City on July 23, 1891, Harry Cohn grew up in poverty, learning rather quickly to fight for every penny he could earn.
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Harry Cohn was a self-invented tyrant who ran Columbia Studios as his personal fiefdom. Extensive interviews and research fuel Bob Thomas's portrayal of a Broadway song...
