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The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures

The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures

Dick, Bernard F.

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing ArtsFilmmakingTheater History

ISBN10: 0813193230
ISBN13: 9780813193236
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Oct 9 2009
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.90 Depth: 5.90
Language: English

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 of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other Harry Cohns: the only studio president who was also head of production; the ex-song plugger who scrutinized scripts and grilled writers at story conferences; a man who could see actresses as either broads or goddesses. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously unstudied source material (conference notes, memos, and especially the teletypes between Harry and his brother, Jack), Bernard Dick offers a radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures--and who had to be boss--from 1932 to 1958.

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