King Cohn
The Lfie and Times of Hollywood Mogul Harry Cohn

Okay, I picked this up at Deals, the local dollar store. I was there to purchase party supplies and happened to see this book on the shelf with some other overly printed books that had apparently not sold in the bigger bookstores. It was very good. This book accounts the life of Harry Cohn, creator......more

Like with his Thalberg biography, Bob Thomas chooses to lionize his subject, though here he is more likely to condemn Cohn’s personality. His tenure at Columbia is one of the greatest runs in the history of studio filmmaking, but it comes paired with a legacy of ferocious tempers and negotiations. C......more

"The Cohn code required that he be master of every relationship within his studio. Anyone who ran counter to this was inevitably discharged. That happened with one of Colombia's publicity directors, Whitney Bolton, who committed the error of defending his boss. At a [1944] press preview at the Panta......more

Absolutely fascinating and engaging. Harry Cohn took Columbia Pictures from a one camera Production Company on "poverty row" to a major studio. And just how he did it, with the equally charming and cruel personality unique to him, deserves a movie itself......more

Mostly chronological bio of the co-founder of Columbia Studios, serves as a history of the studio itself as well. Many small vignettes pepper the larger story arc, as the book was entirely sourced from interviews with the people who knew him.......more