Motion Picture Executive, Film Producer, Film Pioneer. Working as a sheet music printer for Universal Pictures, Cohn joined his older brother Jack Cohn and mutual friend, Joe Brandt to form Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation in 1918. Harry Cohn managed the company's film production in Hollywood, while his brothers and Joe managed its finances from New York. Eventually Harry took over as president of the Hollywood studio and renamed it Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1924. There, he signed signed a number of performers who went on to become stars such as: Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, Judy Holliday and Rita Hayworth. Soon his films started having profitable success starting with "That Certain Thing" (1928). In 1934, the Columbia film "It Happened One Night", won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He continued to work with great success for the rest of his career with such classic Columbia films as "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Lost Horizon" (1937), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Gilda" (1946), "Born Yesterday" (1950), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "On the Waterfront" (1954) and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957).
Motion Picture Executive, Film Producer, Film Pioneer. Working as a sheet music printer for Universal Pictures, Cohn joined his older brother Jack Cohn and mutual friend, Joe Brandt to form Cohn-Brandt-Cohn (CBC) Film Sales Corporation in 1918. Harry Cohn managed the company's film production in Hollywood, while his brothers and Joe managed its finances from New York. Eventually Harry took over as president of the Hollywood studio and renamed it Columbia Pictures Corporation in 1924. There, he signed signed a number of performers who went on to become stars such as: Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Rosalind Russell, Glenn Ford, Judy Holliday and Rita Hayworth. Soon his films started having profitable success starting with "That Certain Thing" (1928). In 1934, the Columbia film "It Happened One Night", won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He continued to work with great success for the rest of his career with such classic Columbia films as "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Lost Horizon" (1937), "You Can't Take It With You" (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), "Gilda" (1946), "Born Yesterday" (1950), "From Here to Eternity" (1953), "On the Waterfront" (1954) and "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957).
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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