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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 · Producer Harry Cohn watching over an unidentified young starlet. Cohn, the son of Jewish emigrants, grew up in a crowded apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—a background he would work for ...
Jul 15, 2023 · Cinema Scholars shines the Spotlight on Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn, among the most ruthless, cruel, and talented Hollywood executives.
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. The son of an immigrant Polish-Jewish tailor, Cohn quit school at age 14 and worked at sundry jobs before becoming a vaudeville singer and song ...
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Harry Cohn (1891-1958) Harry Cohn. 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. Born in the middle of 5 children to Joseph Cohn, a ...
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Feb 22, 2021 · Cohn was always a hustler. According to the “International Film Encyclopedia” by Ephraim Katz, Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolan, he dropped out of school to become a chorus boy, fur salesman, pool hustler, shipping clerk and streetcar conductor, and then made himself a living by plugging songs for a sheet music company. He then followed his brother Jack to Hollywood and ended up as the personal assistant to Carl Laemmle who ran Universal Pictures. Unwilling to be subordinate to any boss ...
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Sep 22, 2011 · Harry Cohn was born on July 23, 1891 in his family’s crowded Yorkville apartment in New York City. He was the third of four children to be born to Joseph and Bella Cohn, Jewish emigrants who struggled for survival in New York’s Upper East Side. While both Jewish, Cohn’s parents came from different cultural backgrounds.
