Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891–February 27, 1958), sometimes nicknamed King Cohn, was president and production director of Columbia Pictures. is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Columbia Pictures logo from 1993 to the present Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. ...

Cohn was born to a working-class German-Jewish family in New York City^[1]. In later years, he appears to have disparaged his heritage. After working for a time as a streetcar conductor, and then as a promoter for a sheet music printer, he got a job with Universal Pictures, where his brother, Jack Cohn, was already employed. In 1924, Cohn joined with his brother and Joe Brandt to found CBC Film Sales Corporation, later renamed Columbia. Harry Cohn managed the company's film production in Hollywood, while his brother managed its finances from New York. The relationship between the two brothers was not always good, and Brandt, finding the partnership stressful, eventually sold his third of the company to Harry Cohn. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... Sheet music is written representation of music. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Year 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... ...

Under Cohn, Columbia Pictures was quite successful — initially, it produced mainly B-movies, but later, directors such as Frank Capra and stars such as Jean Arthur, The Three Stooges, Rita Hayworth, William Holden, and Kim Novak gave it credibility. It is said, in the industry, that while Harry Cohn ruled Columbia Pictures, the studio never ended a production year in the red. The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... This article is about the film director. ... Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an Oscar-nominated American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s. ... The Three Stooges was an American comedy act in the 20th century. ... Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ... William Holden (April 17, 1918 – ca. ... Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress. ...

Cohn was known for his autocratic and intimidating management style. An employee of Columbia called him "as absolute a monarch as Hollywood ever knew", and described him as running his studio "like a private police state". It was said "he had listening devices on all sound stages and could tune in any conversation on the set, then boom in over a loudspeaker if he heard anything that displeased him". There is some suggestion that Cohn deliberately cultivated his reputation as a tyrant, either to maximally motivate his employees or simply because it increased his control of the studio. Cohn is said to have kept a signed photograph of Benito Mussolini, whom he met in Italy in 1933, on his desk until the beginning of World War II (Columbia produced the documentary Mussolini Speaks in 1933, narrated by Lowell Thomas). Cohn also had a number of ties to the Mafia — he had a long-standing friendship with the John Roselli, and mob boss Abner Zwillman was the source of the loan that allowed Cohn to buy out his partner Brandt. Other claims made about Cohn include the rumor that he demanded sex from female stars in exchange for employment, although similar stories were connected to many producers in Hollywood at the time. Lucille Ball regarded Cohn as her nemesis and vice versa. An autocrat is generally speaking any ruler with absolute power; the term is now usually used in a negative sense (cf. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922 until 1943, when he was overthrown. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. ... The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra), is an Italian criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... John Handsome Johnny Roselli (sometimes spelled Rosselli) (July 4, 1905 - August 9, 1976) was an influential Mafia soldier, one who had helped to control Hollywood and Las Vegas for the Chicago Mafia and who had allegedly been involved with the CIA plot to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in the... Abner Longy Zwillman (July 27, 1899/1904 - February 27, 1959), known as the Al Capone of New Jersey, was an early Jewish Prohibition gangster, a founding member of the National Crime Syndicate, and member of the Big Six Mafia Ruling Commission. ... Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an iconic American actor, comedian and star of the landmark sitcom I Love Lucy, a four time Emmy Award winner (awarded 1953, 1956, 1967, 1968) and charter member of the Television Hall of Fame. ...

For the 1934 film It Happened One Night, Frank Capra was unable to get any of the actresses he wanted for the part of Ellie Andrews.^[2] Cohn suggested Claudette Colbert to play the lead role.^[3] It Happened One Night is a 1934 romantic comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her fathers thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). ... Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning French-American actress in Hollywood film, stage, television and radio. ...

Harry Cohn's relationship with Rita Hayworth, was also frought with aggrevation. In Rita's bigoraphy "If This Was Happiness," it was described how Rita refused to sleep with Cohn and this angered him, yet because Hayworth was such a valuable property Cohn kept her on making money. For the years and years they worked together, each did their best to irritate each other despite their lengthy work relationship, which produced good results. Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ...

Cohn was married to Rose Barker from 1923 to 1941, and to actress Joan Perry (1911-1996) from July 1941 until his death in 1958. Perry later married actor Laurence Harvey. His niece is Leonore "Lee" Cohn Annenberg the widow of Walter Annenberg of Philadephia. Her father was Maxwell Cohn the brother of Harry and Jack Cohn. Laurence Harvey (October 1, 1928 – November 25, 1973) was an Academy Award-nominated Lithuanian-born actor who achieved fame in British and American films. ... Walter H. Annenberg Walter H. Annenberg KBE (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American billionaire publisher, philanthropist, and diplomat. ...

Cohn died in 1958. He was the subject of the famous quote from Red Skelton, who remarked of his well-attended funeral, "It proves what they always say: give the public what they want and they'll come out for it."[2] Gossip columnist Hedda Hopper added, "You had to stand in line to hate him." Harry Cohn was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952... Hedda Hopper on the July 28, 1947 cover of Time Magazine Hedda Hopper (May 2, 1885 – February 1, 1966) was an American actress and gossip columnist, whose long-running feud with friend turned arch-rival Louella Parsons became at least as notorious as many of Hoppers columns. ... Hollywood Forever Cemetery entrance Hollywood Forever Cemetery entrance Hollywood Forever Cemetery is located at 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of the City of Los Angeles, California. ... Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...

Notes

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ moviediva ItHappenedOneNight
3. ^ Chronicle of the Cinema, 100 Years of the Movies. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995, p. 252. ISBN 0-7513-3001-9.

External links

• Harry Cohn at the Internet Movie Database
• Find-A-Grave profile for Harry Cohn