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Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was the American president and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Cohn was born to a working-class Jewish family in New York City. His mother, Bella Joseph, was from Russia, and his father, Joseph Cohen, was a tailor from Germany. 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 1919, Cohn joined his brother and Joe Brandt to found CBC Film Sales Corporation. The initials officially stood for Cohn, Brandt, and Cohn, but Hollywood wags noted the company's low-budget, low-class efforts and nicknamed CBC "Corned Beef and Cabbage." 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, who took over as president, by which time the firm had been renamed Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.
Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir, Gilda, opposite Glenn Ford, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. Fred Astaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with Gene Kelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars.
In 1980 Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew international attention to Alzheimer's, then a little-known disease, and helped to greatly increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research.
Actors: Patt Noday (actor), Peter Jurasik (actor), Meg Lansaw (miscellaneous crew), Keith Flippen (actor), Nuno Malo (composer), Phillip DeVona (actor), Eric Paisley (actor), Terry Linehan (producer), Jacquelyn Zook (actress), Steven St. Gelais (actor), Leigh Leverett (costume designer), Jack Landry (actor), Craig Rogers (producer), Joel R. Wells (miscellaneous crew), Chip Hackler (producer),
Plot: Blindsided by the success of his comedy, 'It Happened One Night,' which swept the 1935 Oscars, director Frank Capra became crippled with fear. Convinced his next film would fail, he deteriorated to the brink of death--until the day a mysterious stranger showed up, changing Capra's life, and films, forever.
Keywords: independent-film, period-drama, spiritualActors: Craig Zadan (producer), Scott Vickrey (editor), Bruce Davey (producer), Neil Meron (producer), Mel Gibson (producer), Patrick Williams (composer), John Kassir (actor), Christopher Baker (actor), Paul Ben-Victor (actor), Michael Gregory (actor), Phillip Hinton (actor), Joel Edgerton (actor), Michael Chiklis (actor), Terry Ryan (costume designer), Marton Csokas (actor),
Plot: In the late 1950's, Moe Howard, the leader of the Three Stooges is at a low point of his life with his film career apparently over, and he won't earn a dime from the impending big profits when his films are shown on TV. In addition, he is being pestered by a young TV exec who wants his team for a live show at his city. Amidst all this, Moe can't help but think back to the past starting from the beginning of the team's career with Ted Healy and their break from him to eventually having a successful film career in shorts. Yet that can't obscure the tragedy of Jerome "Curly" Howard's stroke and death or the death of his other brother, Shemp. While he reminisces, Moe must decide whether to gamble on whether there will be a new generation of fans who will let the team to enter a new phase of their career.
Keywords: based-on-book, comedian, comedy-team, reverse-footage, slapstick, stroke, vaudeville, wheelchairActors: Ridley Scott (producer), Melanie Griffith (actress), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Fiona Shaw (actress), James Cromwell (actor), Liev Schreiber (actor), Kerry Shale (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Suchet (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), John Malkovich (actor), John Altman (composer), Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industryActors: Sal Landi (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Terry Moore (actress), Joel Grey (actor), Michael Cavanaugh (actor), David Wells (actor), Barbara Gregson (miscellaneous crew), Sandy McPeak (actor), Lyn Matsuda Norton (miscellaneous crew), Robert Boris (writer), Robert Boris (producer), Robert Boris (writer), Daniel Orlandi (costume designer), Patrick Thomas O'Brien (actor), Richard Roat (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Lalo Schifrin (composer), Rance Howard (actor), David Susskind (producer), Michael Lerner (actor), Philip Sterling (actor), Julian Fellowes (actor), John Considine (actor), Lynda Carter (actress), James T. Callahan (actor), Aharon Ipalé (actor), Joe Dorsey (actor), James Goldstone (director), Alejandro Rey (actor), Leonard Mann (actor), David Byrd (actor),
Plot: Based on the life and times of silverscreen goddess, Rita Hayworth. This film shows in detail her happiest and saddest moments, the men she dated and her successful career as an actress as well as many other aspects of her life.
Keywords: actress, based-on-book, dance, film-camera, sex-symbol, showbiz, starActors: Travilla (costume designer), Philip Sterling (actor), Garson Kanin (writer), Elmer Bernstein (composer), Vic Tayback (actor), Peter Maloney (actor), Lee Wilkof (actor), John Marley (actor), John Dennis (actor), David L. Wolper (producer), Lloyd Bridges (actor), Norman Fell (actor), Michael Lerner (actor), Stuart Whitman (miscellaneous crew), John Erman (director),
Plot: First of two 1980 TV movies about Marilyn Monroe which this one details her days as an aspiring actress through her love affair with high-powered agent Johnny Hyde to the brink of stardom on the eve of his sudden death.
Keywords: based-on-novelMEL BROOKS SAID: "The barber moved him around like mobile artillery."
Harry Cohn ruined a scene by inserting music into it.
jERRY LEWIS SAID: "And I recut the film. But I just juggled some sequences. And never deleted a frame."
El programa aborda la trayectoria de JacK Warner, Louis B. Mayer, Dary Zanuck, Harry Cohn, Carl Laemle, Adolph Zuckor y Walt Disney
Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn never forgave producer Stanley Kramer for this early Dr. Suess fantasy that was supposed to be another Wizard of Oz but turned out more like Willie Wonka as directed by Liberace. One of the stranger major studio "family" films, with subtexts you just don't wanna know about. Seuss once claimed that Kramer actually directed most of the picture after director Roy Rowland fell ill. Kramer partner Carl Foreman had been slated to direct before he was blacklisted.
Go On Location and inside the estate of a Hollywood icon, Harry Cohn, the legendary founder of Columbia Pictures, with this MC2 produced clip. Developed and shot in conjunction with Coldwell Banker Previews International this video was part of a series of digital shorts produced to celebrate the Previews' heritage in cinematography.
Showreel featuring some of projects from 2015, and a few projects i've worked on! Check out my channel or website for more content. harrynikcohn.com Thanks for watching! Music: Friendzone - Passion Breathing Utopia Soundtrack - Overture Nujabes - World's End Rhapsody
A short documentary about the Manchester Bees. With this film I tried to explore themes such as community, competition, and friendship. A special thanks to The Manchester Bees who allowed me to spend so much time filming. Music: Nujabes - Fellows Soulchef - California Maribou State - Scarlett Groove Nujabes - World's End Rhapsody
Rita Hayworth's vibrant personality and character burst off the screen in this biography documenting her hugely successful career, but giving the lie to her basically sad and unhappy life, which was dominated by men who apparently wanted to use her as a money-making machine. First her controlling father; her first husband, Edward Judson; Columbia head, Harry Cohn and others. She had five husbands, all who gave her various levels of grief - namely the afore-mentioned Judson, then Orson Welles, followed by Prince Ali Khan, the singer Dick Haymes and lastly James Hill. Rita appeared in more than thirty films in small roles or bit parts - some not even credited - before winning larger roles and starting her career ‘proper'. In spite of the fact that several albums have been issued claiming to...
Recorded May 30, 1988. SCHICKLGRUBER, ADOLF H., Marina Oswald, Commission Exhibit #106, The Mind of Adolf Hitler, Walter Langer, Hitler's grandfather was Schicklgruber, grandmother worked for Baron Rothschild, funded Hitler. NAZIS GO UNDERGROUND, 1943. Richard Condon, wrote Winter Kills, "Manchurian Candidate", J.F. Kennedy assassination, R.F. Kennedy, Jack Ruby, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Lawrence Harvey, Marilyn Monroe, Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Judith Exner, Sam Giancana, John Rosselli, Robert Maheu, Nelson Rockefeller, murders. Sinatra connection, Marilyn Monroe, R.F. Kennedy, blackmail sex tapes, Exner and blackmail of J.F. Kennedy, Lucky Luciano and Sinatra in Naples and Cuba, Hotel Nacional, Carlos Marcello, Ruby, Santos Trafficante. Sen. Estes Kefauver, R.F. Kennedy, mob inve...
Barfly est un film américain réalisé par Barbet Schroeder sorti en 1987. Le film est une semi-autobiographie de l'auteur-poète Charles Bukowski durant son passage à Los Angeles où il buvait beaucoup. Il fait d'ailleurs une apparition dans le film. Fiche technique : Titre : Barfly Réalisation : Barbet Schroeder Scénario : Charles Bukowski Musique additionnelle : Jack Baran Musiques supplémentaires : Georg Friedrich Händel, Booker T. Jones, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Adams. Directeur de la photographie : Robby Müller Costumes : Milena Canonero Montage : Éva Gárdos Production : Jack Baran, Richard Garcia, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan, Tom Luddy, Fred Roos, Barbet Schroeder Société de production : American Zoetrope Distributeur : Cannon Film Distributors...
After Rob Russell steals Tim Clark's ranch, Clark starts prospecting for silver. Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix. John Waynes Latest and Greatest Outdoor Romance Though in the film John Wayne is second billed to star Tim McCoy he actually has very little to do. Wayne is in the unaccustomed role of sidekick. Wayne and Wallace MacDonald are the last two ranch hands working for Tim McCoy. He's lost is ranch to crooked banker Wheeler Oakman, but being the good boss and friend he is to Wayne and MacDonald he finds them jobs with neighbor...
John Wayne Movies Full Length Free Westerns Two-Fisted Law 1932 Westerns Full Movies John Wayne, Tim McCoy This Tim McCoy Columbia Studios Western may have been the forerunner of McDonald's later so popular The Three Mesqueteers. John Wayne, whose character is named, appropriately, Duke, and Wallace MacDonald (no relation to William Colt) play McCoy's loyal ranch hands, and although they remain in the background for part of the action, the germ of the triad hero is there. Tim McCoy plays a rancher losing his property to a crooked money-lender turned cattle rustler (Wheeler Oakman). The villain is in league with a sheriff's deputy (Walter Brennan) and together they rob the Wells Fargo. There is a final shootout and the dying deputy confesses to both the Wells Fargo heist and to the fa...
Walter Huston stars as an idealistic bank president who has been making loans to depositors without sufficient collateral. When there's a run on his bank, his loyal staff rallies local small businessmen to make more deposits which moves the directors to keep the bank afloat. Released shortly after FDR's New Deal, this film whole-heartedly espoused Roosevelt's ideals. © 1932, renewed 1959 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
In this fast-paced potboiler, Barbara Stanwyck stars as a staid librarian who falls in love with district attorney Adolph Manjou. The two have an affair though Menjou is married. Stanwyck has a daughter and the child is adopted by Menjou, while Stanwyck gets a job working Ralph Bellamy. Meanwhile, Menjou works his way up the political ladder to governor and Stanwyck marries Bellamy, who soon learns of her past. © 1932, renewed 1959 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Various Artists - Goodbye Cruel World: The Colpix Story '59-'62 Released 2013-06-14 on One Day Music Download on iTunes: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/album/id-1?uo=6&app;=itunes&at;=10ldAw&ct;=YTAT5060255181928 Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Various+Artists+Goodbye+Cruel+World%3A+The+Colpix+Story+%2759-%2762&c;=music&PAffiliateID;=100l3VM 1. 00:00:00 James Darren Goodbye Cruel World 2. 00:02:22 Shelley Fabares Johnny Angel 3. 00:04:41 The Marcels Blue Moon 4. 00:07:00 The Ronettes I'm Gonna Quit While I'm Ahead 5. 00:09:17 Bernadette Castro Sports Car Sally 6. 00:11:23 Paul Petersen My Dad 7. 00:13:49 Nina Simone Come on Back, Jack 8. 00:16:05 Phil Castro Crazy Little Heartache 9. 00:18:04 Oliver & The Twisters Mother Goose Twist 10. 00:20:40 Kris Jensen Stayin...
Basie's in the Bag is an album by pianist and bandleader Count Basie and His Orchestra featuring performances of contemporary popular tunes recorded in 1967 and released on the Brunswick label. Tracks list: A1 Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 00:00 A2 Hang On Sloopy 2:31 A3 Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin' 5:12 A4 Ain't Too Proud To Beg 7:15 A5 Goin' Out Of My Head 9:42 14:00 A6 In The Heat Of The Night 11:50 B1 Green Onions 14:00 B2 Knock On Wood 17:57 B3 Let The Good Times Roll 22:10 B4 Bright Lights, Big City 24:55 B5 Reach Out I'll Be There 27:15 Credits: Organ – Count Basie Piano – Count Basie Bass – Norman Keenan Drum – Irv Cottler (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B4), Louis Bellson (tracks: A1, A2, A5 to B3, B5, B6) Guitar – Freddie Green Reeds – Bobby Plater, Charlie Fowlkes, Lockjaw Davis, ...
Robert Loggia on replacing Robert Aldrich, Vincent Sherman, Harry Cohn and Columbia
It Should Happen to You (1954) is a romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday, notable as the first screen appearance of Jack Lemmon, who was then an aspiring young actor. The film was directed by George Cukor and filmed on location in New York City. Screenwriter Garson Kanin originally intended the script as a vehicle for Danny Kaye, but Kanin's wife, Ruth Gordon, suggested casting Judy Holliday instead. The title was initially A Name for Herself. Lemmon had a contentious meeting with studio boss Harry Cohn, who feared that critics might use jokes about the name "Lemmon" in headlines panning the film. He wanted Lemmon to change his name to "Lennon." Lemmon countered that if he did that people might confuse his name with "Lenin" and associate his name with Communism, a very real concern...
Trailer for Martin Scorsese's film starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel,Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks,Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris, Diahnne Abbott, Joe Spinell, Frank Adu, Gino Ardito, Victor Argo, Garth Avery, Harry Cohn, Copper Cunningham, Brenda Dickson, Martin Scorsese, Harry Northup, Steven Prince,
Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale. I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name. I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.
Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work. I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together. I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name. As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale.
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (CPII) is an American film production and distribution studio, that is part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film studios in the world, a member of the so-called Big Six. It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The studio, founded in 1918 as Cohn-Brandt-Cohn Film Sales by brothers Jack and Harry Cohn and Joe Brandt, released its first feature film in August 1922. It adopted the Columbia Pictures name in 1924 and went public two years later. The name is derived from "Columbia", a national personification of the United States, which is us...
With the passing of Mat Domber, the video clips from past Arbors parties & recording sessions are being posted in his memory. This clip features Harry Allen, John Allred & Joe Cohn. Do you have spring fever, yet ?
Won't you leave me alone
I'e got someone else
This is no good for me
And I should go home
I keep tellin' myself
But what can I do
And now you come to me
I say oh no
You got me paralyzed
I can't go
One kiss and I know
We're in too deep
And so I say
Take my heart and run
'Cuase I can't resist
Temptation
Her love is like a loaded gun
And I can't resist
Temptation
I call an S.O.S.
My heart is under attack
But it's too late for me
Wearin' that smile
And lookin' like that
I can't break free
You're daddy's little girl
Oh no
You're mama's fallen angel
Can't say no
You may have what I want
But you're not what I need
I tell myself
You got me paralyzed