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1. März 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. This second edition contains elements that were removed from the first edition ...
- Bob Thomas
18. Aug. 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). In a 1969 interview with
Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part ...
Cohn, who was notoriously tyrannical and foulmouthed, was dubbed “the meanest man in Hollywood.” He meddled in the private lives of actors and regarded those who worked for him as his personal property. Yet Cohn possessed a keen intuition for the potential of stories, actors, and directors that he combined with an uncanny instinct for predicting what types of films would sell to the public ...
King Cohn. : Bob Thomas. McGraw-Hill, 1990 - Biography & Autobiography - 381 pages. 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 plugger turned powerful player.
In the end, Harry Cohn's reputation as a world-class tyrant and as a top-notch mogul remained one of Hollywood's greatest legends. 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.
19. Jan. 2024 · Harry Cohn řídil filmovou produkci v Hollywoodu, John se z pohodlí svého newyorského bytu staral o finance. Vztah mezi těmito dvěma bratry nebyl vždycky dobrý a jejich společník Brandt, který považoval vzájemnou spolupráci za velmi stresující, nakonec prodal svůj podíl ve společnosti Harrymu. Tak se stal Harry Cohn ...
