Personal Info
Birth date
1891-07-23 (133 Years)
Day of death
1958-02-27
Gender
Male
Known for
Production
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
-Harry Cohn
Biography
Harry Cohn was the co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Filmography
It Happened One Night
7.8
Overview:
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind.Forbidden
6.7
Overview:
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.Gunman's Walk
6.7
Overview:
A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.American Madness
7
Overview:
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.Twentieth Century
6.8
Overview:
A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.Broadway Bill
5.976
Overview:
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bankroll is thin and the luck is against him. He is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planned fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...Shopworn
6.5
Overview:
A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.Ladies of Leisure
6.1
Overview:
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family who strives to succeed as an artist. What begins as a relationship of mutual convenience soon turns into something else.Platinum Blonde
6.7
Overview:
Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.The Criminal Code
6.086
Overview:
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.Virtue
6.8
Overview:
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.Craig's Wife
6.3
Overview:
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.One Night of Love
5.5
Overview:
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.That Certain Thing
6.5
Overview:
Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.So This Is Love
5.318
Overview:
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.The Miracle Woman
6.6
Overview:
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?Brothers
NYR
Overview:
Bob Naughton and Eddie Connolly are identical-twin brothers that were separated in infancy. Bob is raised by a rich lawyer, has all the advantages, but is a drunk with no moral character. Eddie is a pianist in a speak-easy but a man of high character. Bob commits a murder and Eddie is blamed and faces life in prison.The Good Bad Girl
5.5
Overview:
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.Flight
6.3
Overview:
Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929, stars Jack Holt, Ralph Graves and Lila Lee.Vanity Street
6.8
Overview:
A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".Ten Cents a Dance
6.8
Overview:
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.Arizona
4.5
Overview:
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.So This Is Africa
6
Overview:
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.Black Moon
5.2
Overview:
A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel
6.9
Overview:
Kim Novak never dreamed on being a star, but she became one. Most famous for her enigmatic performance in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958), the Chicago-born actress never quite fitted into the Hollywood mould and wanted to do things her own way.Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner
9.5
Overview:
Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.Hurricane
6
Overview:
Captain Black and his motley crew of pirates are shipwrecked on a South Sea island, where they hold several shanghaied sailors captive. Black observes the ship commanded by Hurricane Martin approaching and conspires to get his men aboard the vessel and seize the cargo.The Matinee Idol
6.313
Overview:
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don? Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. in 1997.Submarine
5.5
Overview:
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.The Last of the Lone Wolf
6
Overview:
In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His Majesty learns that his wife has given the ring he gave to her to her lover, the King plans a large ball and demands the she wear the token. As her lover is a military attache, he is not in the palace, and the queen must send her lady-in-waiting to bring it back. En route, the lady meets a thief and they team up. She does not know that he has been dispatched by the King to steal ring from the attache.Acting
2023Kim Novak: Hollywood's Golden Age Rebel as Self (archive footage)
2019Hollywood, The Dream Life of Lana Turner as Self (archive footage)
Production
1958Gunman's Walk ... Executive Producer
1938There's That Woman Again ... Producer
1936Craig's Wife ... Producer
1935Air Hawks ... Producer
1934Broadway Bill ... Producer
1934One Night of Love ... Producer
1934Black Moon ... Producer
1934Twentieth Century ... Executive Producer
1934It Happened One Night ... Producer
1933So This Is Africa ... Executive Producer
1933Mussolini Speaks ... Producer
1932Virtue ... Producer
1932Vanity Street ... Producer
1932American Madness ... Producer
1932Attorney for the Defense ... Producer
1932Shopworn ... Producer
1932Behind the Mask ... Producer
1932Forbidden ... Producer
1931The Guilty Generation ... Producer
1931Platinum Blonde ... Producer
1931The Miracle Woman ... Producer
1931Arizona ... Producer
1931The Good Bad Girl ... Producer
1931Ten Cents a Dance ... Producer
1931Desert Vengeance ... Producer
1931The Criminal Code ... Producer
1930Brothers ... Producer
1930The Last of the Lone Wolf ... Producer
1930Soldiers and Women ... Producer
1930Ladies of Leisure ... Producer
1930Guilty? ... Producer
1930Vengeance ... Producer
1930Murder on the Roof ... Producer
1929Mexicali Rose ... Producer
1929Acquitted ... Producer
1929Hurricane ... Producer
1929Flight ... Producer
1929The College Coquette ... Producer
1929Trial Marriage ... Producer
1928Submarine ... Producer
1928Runaway Girls ... Producer
1928The Scarlet Lady ... Producer
1928Virgin Lips ... Producer
1928Name the Woman ... Producer
1928Broadway Daddies ... Producer
1928The Desert Bride ... Producer
1928The Matinee Idol ... Producer
1928So This Is Love ... Producer
1928That Certain Thing ... Producer
1927The Siren ... Producer
1927The Clown ... Producer
1927The Romantic Age ... Producer
1927Birds of Prey ... Producer
1927Stolen Pleasures ... Producer
1926When the Wife's Away ... Producer
1923The Marriage Market ... Producer
Crew
1929The Lone Wolf's Daughter ... Presenter