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Mar 1, 2000 · A biography of an uneducated immigrant who built Columbia Pictures from the ground up. Includes b&w photos from Cohn's career, spanning the 1920s through the 1950s. Originally published in 1967 as King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn , by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
- Bob Thomas
Nov 30, 2022 · Harry Cohn, the chief executive officer of Columbia Pictures from 1932 until his death in 1958, prided himself on being unique. Regarded as the youngest Hollywood mogul, he was also the only ...
King Cohn is superior to the other available biography of Columbia Picture's Czar Harry Cohn, The Merchant of Poverty Row. It documents the rise of Columbia from a poverty row cheapie movie studio into the well respected and money making Major it became after the release of Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" with Clark Gable and Claudette ...
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- Bob Thomas
Motion Picture Executive, Film Producer, Film Pioneer. Working as a sheet music printer for Universal Pictures, Cohn joined his older brother Jack Cohn and mutual friend, Joe Brandt to form Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation in 1918. Harry Cohn managed the company's film production in Hollywood, while his...
Roy Marcus Cohn ( / koʊn / KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who came to prominence for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy 's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists. In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, he ...
Aug 28, 1983 · Harry Cohn's first partner, Joe Brandt, did not want the company to be a vertical monopoly and advised against acquisition of movie houses, though Paramount and M-G-M (owned by Loew's) were ...
Oct 22, 2022 · Harry Cohn's tenure as president of Columbia Pictures (1919-1958) was a far cry from the #MeToo era. Nicknamed "King Cohn," according to History, he ruled over his silver-screen empire like a power-mad and paranoid monarch, demanding sex from would-be starlets and summarily firing anyone who dissented from his dictatorial ways.
