Harry Cohn

...the wife of billionaire publishing magnate Walter Annenberg of Philadelphia. Her father was Maxwell Cohn, brother of Harry and Jack Cohn. Cohn died of a sudden heart attack in February 1958 in Phoenix, AZ. He was the subject of the famous...

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...was Frank Capra's fifth sound film, and the first project over which Columbia Pictures head Harry Cohn was giving him complete creative control. Cohn assigned the director to adapt Ladies of the Evening, a melodrama David Belasco had...

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...drop. " A year after his divorce, Walter had married Leonore "Lee" Cohn, a Stanford graduate and a niece of Columbia Pictures boss Harry Cohn. Lee had had two previous husbands-casino operator Beldon Katleman and Schenley-liquor owner...

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...the legendary figures in the business were all still alive and kicking, doing every day what put them in the history books -- Harry Cohn was still screaming at his underlings, Ben Hecht was still cranking out screenplays and Frank Sinatra...

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...by Columbia Studios and adapted into a box-office success for its stars Van Heflin and Tab Hunter. "Harry Cohn asked me what I thought of the script. I told him I loved it. That it was the kind of part I'd been longing to play," Tab Hunter...

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...in Budd's Hollywood was bigger than life, with bigger-than-life ambitions and excesses. He knew Columbia Pictures mogul Harry Cohn, who had loudspeakers installed in his studio so he could yell at anyone at a moment's notice. He knew...

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...''Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 1:25th Anniversary '' - Ralph Staub, producer In 1919, Jack Cohn, brother of future Columbia president Harry Cohn, wanted short one-reel size films showing the reality of Hollywood. The two brothers...

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...merchant whose business was failing, and of Clara Henle, his wife, whose family had emigrated from Berlin. Lee was the niece of Harry Cohn, founder of Columbia Pictures, who brought her up from the aged of 11 onwards - her mother having died...

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...was childless. His reaction was less than paternal. "I'll pay the bills for them, but I won't be involved in any of their problems," Harry Cohn said, according to Bob Thomas's biography of the producer. But he was eager for them to marry...

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A successful screen test at Columbia led to a contract. The predatory Columbia mogul, Harry Cohn, never bothered her though, and she thought of him as "a friendly Uncle type". She enjoyed her brief roles with co-stars Rosalind Russell and...

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