Talk:Harry Cohn

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The quote from Red Skelton can be found in a New Yorker article from late 2002 on Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein strongly resented journalist Ken Auletta comparing him to Cohn, but viewed himself similarly to Irving G. Thalberg and David O. Selznick. Jjjjjjjjjj 22:09, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Hi, everybody. This same quote is attributed to Billy Wilder, by Orson Welles, as we can read in Barbara Leaming's "Orson Welles" (1985). How can we be sure of the original? Didier F (talk) 00:05, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

It's a great quote, but it was first printed (in slightly different form) more than 15 years before Cohn's death and was attributed to George Jessel, not Skelton or Groucho or Wilder. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/06/want/. User:Zeno Cosini~enwiki

the main article says that Harry Cohn was born in New York. My father came over on the boat from Riga Latvia with him. After WWII Jews were hunting for any survivors everywhere. We found a cousin who knew Harry Cohn and he came to dinner at our house in Santa Monica in 1948. They chattered away in Latvian, Yiddish, English and and reminisced about the "old days."

I was a bit surprised to read he was born in New York. What was the main source for the information? Both my father and he may have been illegals, thus the official biography may be false. My father became a citizen in WWI by joining up. About Mr. Cohn's citizenship, I have no clue.

harry cohn was born in buffalo ny 1891
I am amy Cohn and my grandfather was nathan cohn who was harry younger brother. Joe cohn born in germany 1863 came over from germany as a merchant tailor at the age of 18 in 1881 via canada. His wife bella came from poland in 1884 at aged 18. Max was born in buffalo 1888, jacob/jack born in 1889 buffalo, harry july 23 1891, anna rebecca 1897 and my grandfather nathan was born 1900 in buffalo. they all moved from buffalo to the lower east side in nyc at around 1903 whereby joe was a tailor for the nyc police department. they all resided at 14 cypress street, city of buffalo, erie county, NY.

whoever said they knew harry on the boat coming over was wrong. contact me for any questions. amyfL1955@aol.com (Amycohn 06:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC))

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"I used to sit up nights thinking of things I could do to Harry Cohn. One night I lay awake for three hours before I thought of something"

Broderick Crawford---in KING COHN — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.11 (talk) 16:25, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

Occasionally, somebody would answer Cohn back. When Cohn was in t he midst of divorcing his first wife, he started demanding at a staff meeting that somebody think up a name for his new yacht. A soon-to-be-unemployed screenwriter replied--"Why not call it the "GOOD BYE,ROSE"?

An even more famous anecdote involved screenwriter Herman Manciewicz, not-yet famous and only on staff doing odds and ends.

At a staff meeting, Cohn bellowed that he'd just seen the lousiest picture he'd ever saw, and named it.

Somebody replied that he'd seen the picture and the audience loved it; and suggested Cohn should have seen it at a theater instead of alone in his private screening room.

Cohn said--"That makes no difference. When I'm watching a picture I know it's lousy if my fanny squirms"

To which Mankiewicz replied--"Gee,Mister Cohn,this is fascinating. Until today I never knew that the whole world was directly wired to your (CENSORED)"

Manciewicz was fired. He swore to his dying day it had been worth it.

Both anecdotes are in the book KING COHN.