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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
Harry Cohn in 1942 As Dick points out, Columbia Pictures was an anomaly. While rival studios could easily be categorized — MGM, Universal, Fox and Paramount were respectively known for family fare, low-budget horror and comedy and highbrow and sophisticated dramas — Columbia was eclectic.
Mar 1, 2000 · Originally published in 1967 as King Cohn: The Life and Times of Harry Cohn , by G. P. Putnam's Sons. This second edition contains elements that were removed from the first edition by Putnam's lawyers: a list of persons interviewed, and a chapter explaining influences on Cohn's personality.
- Bob Thomas
Oct 17, 2017 · According to Beauchamp: “Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures and Jack Warner at Warner Bros. were Abusive with a capital ‘A.’ Mayer believed he’d built his studio brick by brick, it was his ...
Aug 18, 2022 · Harry Cohn (above, left, with Eddie Cantor) seemed to sweep the old disagreements under the rug, but it was a point of pride for Wayne (via "John Wayne: American"). He was known to say he'd "rather leave the industry than make a picture" for Cohn (whom he referred to almost exclusively with curse words).
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 ...
