Harry Cohn Built Hollywood, and Everyone Hated Him for It

[@EmilyCullen]

“Harry Cohn would say ‘I never put a hand on her.’ Of course he hadn’t put a hand on me - as if I’d let him!” Rita Hayworth ❤

[@Nick-ty9us]

The 1959 comedy it happened to Jane has Ernie Kovacs character as an caricatures of Harry Cohn luckily, since he was dead, he was not able to see that

[@palacespot2]

Weinstein the reincarnation of Harry Cohn!

[@FactsVerse]

We absolutely agree! Thank you for watching our content. Be on the lookout for our next video!

[@MrBruce5437]

@@FactsVerse Harry Cohn in his lifetime should have be jailed for his corrupt practices and sexual misconducts

[@villain68]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@MrBruce5437]

@@villain68 me too, he should have been arrested and jailed

[@williamsnyder5616]

This is not to condone Harry Cohn's attitudes toward young female stars, but he was far from the only one of the moguls to act this way. In one of shirley Temple'sbiographers, she relates what happened to her after she was dropped by Fox. She and her mother went over to MGM to meet with Louis B. Mayer and producer Arthur Freed. Mayer suggested Freed take Temple into his officewhile he(Mayer) had "provate conferences" with the Temple ladies. Uh, Shirley indicated the conferences attempted to be erotic. Over at 20th Century-Fox, studio head Darryl Zanuck woud invite a starlet to his office every afternoon at 4 pm for a tete-a-tete. Other 20th employees took the cue todo the same thing, prompting one employee to say, "We could have paid for amonthly PG&E bill for one hour every day."

[@justafuable]

You left out the part where he almost had Sammy Davis Jr killed!

[@delavalmilker]

Jack Warner, Louis B. Mayer, David Sarnoff---not to mention Harry Cohn, they were all children of immigrants. And grew up in hardscrabble backgrounds. There's something about being exposed to poverty as a child, that makes men grow up to be hard and ruthless.

[@theincredibleimpression]

Harry Cohn was literally the man who gave us The Three Stooges! After Curly suffered his career ending stroke he told them "Over the years I've let many of my comedians and stars go but I've kept you guys here! I'm just as heartbroken about Curly's illness as you and your families are but I want you guys to know; As long as I'm around the Three Stooges will always have a place at Columbia Pictures! And Moe I need to remind you, I'm paying you for Three Stooges NOT TWO! CALL SHEMP IMMEDIATELY!!!!!" These weren't his exact words but according to interviews with Moe and Larry before their deaths he said something to the effects of that! Many people think that Cohn did that to only benefit himself and Columbia and even though the Stooges never got rich, they were really the only stars at Columbia that he had total respect and care for!

[@kali3665]

And soon after Harry's death, Columbia pretty much ended the shorts department overnight and banned the Stooges from the lot. After over 20 years at the studio, the Stooges got nothing.

[@theincredibleimpression]

@@kali3665 yes that's absolutely correct! Cohn only said "As long I'm around" and unfortunately when he died the Stooges career also died! At least for the time being

[@joewelnack3283]

When Harry died Red Skelton who had worked for the studio, commented, "What a huge turn crowd, give the people what they want and they will come". Most of the stars in the shorts dept. were badly treated financially, but always had steady work there.

[@avalond1193]

Harry didn't give us the 3 stooges ..they already existed and was becoming very popular other studios wanted them. However Harry made a fortune off them and didn't share in the money

[@moss8448]

what was it Red Skelton said at his funeral?...give the people what they want and they'll show up

[@onlythewise1]

standard oil did the same thing bought up all small oil wells and refineries and stations and become so big they made them split

[@kali3665]

The big studios would send their big stars to Columbia as punishment when they demanded more money. That was how It Happened One Night got made - both Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert were banished to Columbia because their home studios (MGM and Paramount, respectively) thought they were getting too big for their britches. Which came back to bite the studios when It Happened One Night became a multi-Oscar winning hit, and they had to up Gable and Colbert's salaries. Later that year, Colbert was in Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra. Five years later, Gable was in Gone With the Wind. When Harry Cohn came on to Joan Crawford, Crawford cracked, "Keep it in your pants, Harry - I'm having lunch with your wife and kids tomorrow." As the old saying went, no one f___d with Joan Crawford, literally or figuratively. A reporter supposedly was surprised when so many attended Harry Cohn's funeral, and he asked Red Skelton what was up since so many hated Cohn. Skelton replied, "Well, give the people what they want, everyone comes."

[@dextec49]

I see where Hollywood had gotten it’s dark side reputation from. He was a shrewd, aggressive pioneer, legend, icon executive who had a lot of great actors and actresses seeing red in their opinions on him. Karma came and took him out. He has left his mark on Hollywood and the Me Too movement, today’s social media platforms is changing the landscape hopefully for the better. Interesting video of a legend with power, abuse till the end of his life. More respect for Rita Hayworth, Katherine Hepburn and others who disagree with his methods.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Not if it's a cocktail umbrella 😂

[@racheldianeames3729]

please do a video on the history of famous old hollywood movie studios

[@FactsVerse]

Thank you for the suggestion. We won't promise you anything but we'll look into The History of Famous Old Hollywood Movie Studios 😀

[@1194pa]

Good work

[@FactsVerse]

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[@David-yw2lv]

Jack Woltz in The Godfather was modeled after Harry Cohn.Three cheers for Rita Hayworth.

[@BostonBobby1961]

He was also an integral part of putting three stooges on the big screen.

[@FactsVerse]

Well said, we strongly concur! Thank you for watching our content and for sharing your thoughts. What other types of videos would you like to see?

[@grapegrind]

Got a flash for you; ALL the studio heads at that period were bastards.

[@playedout148]

As bad as any ceo, banker, politician or cop you'd want to meet.

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Harry nipple umbrella 😂

[@saugusguy]

You are misinformed, jian crawford was never under contract to columbia studios..mgm and Warners only

[@hungrysoles]

How did he get along with The Three Stooges ?

[@onlythewise1]

sexual favors been around for a million years

[@francesglenn2117]

That's thee problem unfortunately 🎭

[@PresJoshington]

Why They both getting what they want

[@laradavenport903]

​@@PresJoshingtonSo you supported sexual assaulted and male or females rape cases??

[@SkipItCR]

3:56 on the picture it is not Gary Cooper, it is Frank Capra, and Cooper was not the star of Columbia, he was the star of Paramount

[@mrflynn01]

None of this surprises me, 😹😹😹

[@tommyandrews4992]

I wouĺd give up my body on the casting couch ìf it guaranteed me a millionaire.

[@vicvega3614]

Yes i would also 😊

[@edwinkirkland8856]

Yes he was a bastard, y r the casting couch king

[@asteverino8569]

I thank Harry for the Three Stooges.

[@avalond1193]

Harry cheated the 3 stooges out of millions and overworked curly instead of letting him recover which contributed to curly early death

[@rhondabryant667]

Only Christ satisfies! Hollyweird is so shallow!!!

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

He did not build Hollywood. The real pioneers were Loew, Ince, Mayer, Thalberg, Lammle, Zanuck, and the Warner brothers. Columbia was just a minor studio, one of the Little Three.

[@captainalex8003]

You forgot Zukor.

[@LaurenceDay-d2p]

@@captainalex8003 And Jesse Lasky.

[@palacespot2]

If it was just sleep that was ok!

[@paddyoak1]

Exactly!

[@heru-deshet359]

So Kim Novak liked dark meat, Lol, who knew?

[@lanaashford2192]

He wasn't the Harvey Weinstein of his day.

[@WillScarlet1991]

*was..

[@PresJoshington]

​@@WillScarlet1991you're the nobody of today

[@ricardocantoral7672]

Of course he was and he was worse.

[@ricardocantoral7672]

​@@PresJoshingtonBeing nobody is always preferable to being infamous