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   How did Harry Cohn become a movie star?

   • For a significant number of movie stars, a career in pictures started instead with sexual exploitation on the “casting couch” of Harry Cohn, one of Hollywood’s most powerful—and brutal—men. As the head of Columbia Pictures from 1919 to 1958, Cohn expected sex in exchange for a chance at stardom.

   This Tinseltown Tyrant Used Sexual Exploitation to Build a Hollywood

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   Was Harry Cohn a 'casting couch' in Hollywood?

   • This seemingly simple formula was the dream of many aspiring Hollywood starlets—and the myth of Hollywood’s Golden Age. For a significant number of movie stars, a career in pictures started instead with sexual exploitation on the “casting couch” of Harry Cohn, one of Hollywood’s most powerful—and brutal—men.

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   Who was Harry Cohn?

   • That’s Harry Cohn, President of Columbia Pictures in 1946 as quoted in “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood” by Neal Gabler. The controversial studio head of Columbia Pictures Corporation, yesteryear’s Harvey Weinstein, started his tyrannical rule in Hollywood in 1919 and continued it till his death in 1958.

   Forgotten Hollywood: Harry Cohn, President of Columbia Pictures

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   Is Harry Cohn based on a true story?

   • The characters played by Broderick Crawford in All the King's Men (1949) and Born Yesterday (1950), both Columbia pictures, are allegedly based on Cohn, as is Jack Woltz, a movie mogul who appears in The Godfather (1972) as well as Rod Steiger in The Big Knife. In his own way, Harry Cohn was sentimental about certain professional matters.

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   Was Harry Cohn a prepossessing character?

   • Harry Cohn was not a prepossessing character and was one of the most unpopular men in Hollywood. He was a blustering, foul-mouthed, abrasive taskmaster and acted like a tyrant at Columbia. His office there contained a large height adjustable desk for Cohn and small seats for his visitors, enabling him to seemingly dwarf them.

   Harry Cohn (1891-1958) - Hollywood's Golden Age

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   How did Jack Cohn become a film producer?

   • He entered the film industry when he got a job with Independent Moving Pictures (which had recently merged to become part of Universal Film Manufacturing Company), where his elder brother, Jack Cohn, was already employed. The brothers made their first film there, Traffic in Souls.

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   Cohn did not build a stable of movie stars like other studios. Instead, he generally signed actors who usually worked for more expensive studios ( Wheeler & Woolsey , Cary Grant , Katharine Hepburn , Mae West , Humphrey Bogart , Dorothy Lamour , Mickey Rooney , Chester Morris , Warren William , Warner Baxter , Sabu , Gloria Jean , Margaret O ...

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5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0169902Harry Cohn - Biography - IMDb

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   By 1919 Jack was itching for a change and wanted to become an independent film producer--he produced a series of shorts called Screen Snapshots, which purported to show stars' lives off-screen. Their popularity encouraged Jack to jump ship and Harry, sensing an opportunity, went with him.

   • Birth Date: July 23, 1891

   • Death Date: February 27, 1958

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   Feb 22, 2021 · The controversial studio head of Columbia Pictures Corporation, yesteryear’s Harvey Weinstein, started his tyrannical rule in Hollywood in 1919 and continued it till his death in 1958. Cohn was always a hustler.

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   Oct 17, 2017 · His penchant for the casting couch — the practice of powerful white men exploiting young actresses trying to break into the movie business — has a historical precedent as old as the movie ...

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   Nov 30, 2022 · Born in New York City in 1891, the son of Russian immigrants, Cohn was younger than any of his peers — Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, Joseph Schenck, William Fox, Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil B. De Mille — and was among the Jewish founders of the Hollywood film industry.

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   Under his stewardship Columbia became famous for dramatic movies such as 'It Happened One Night' in 1934, 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939, 'From Here to Eternity' in 1953 and 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' in 1957, all multiple Oscar-winning movies. Search Amazon for Harry Cohn.