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

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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 produ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dick, Bernard F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cohn, Harry, > 1891-1958.
Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Columbia Pictures Corporation > History.
Motion picture producers and directors.
PERFORMING ARTS > Business Aspects.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema > États-Unis > Biographies.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
United States.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 look at 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 bro
Physical Description:1 online resource (242 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813147536

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