Bernard F. Dick

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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 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 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.

"The broadest and most insightful look at Cohn and Columbia we are likely to have for some time." -- Film Quarterly

"Ever since Cohn died in 1958, writers have been trying to sort out Cohn-the-myth and Cohn-the-man but no one has yet done it in more fascinating detail that Bernard Dick." -- The Hollywood Reporter

"Writers have been trying to sort out Cohn, the myth of Cohn, the man, but no one has yet done it in more fascinating detail than Bernard Dick." -- Now Playing

Publication Date

1993

Publisher

The University Press of Kentucky

Place of Publication

Lexington, KY

ISBN

9780813193236

eISBN

9780813147536

Keywords

Harry Cohn, Columbia Pictures, Motion picture history, Motion picture producers, Movie history

Disciplines

Film and Media Studies

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