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Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation. [1]
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. As...
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 · Cinema Scholars shines the Spotlight on Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, among the most ruthless, cruel, and talented Hollywood executives.
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 · Of all the famed original Hollywood moguls, none have achieved such mythic and notorious reputations as Harry Cohn (born July 23, 1891 in New York City, NY; died February 28, 1958 in Phoenix, AZ).
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Bernard F. Dick. University Press of Kentucky, 1993 - Biography & Autobiography. Preview this book » Selected pages. Title...
Of all the studio heads of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Harry Cohn (1891-1958) was the least typical. Compared to MGM’s Louis Mayer, Harry was a late convert to film.
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.
