Harry Cohn
출생 : 1891-07-23, New York City, New York, USA
사망 : 1958-02-27
약력
Harry Cohn was the co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.
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Portrait of Julia Jean Turner, from her childhood to her rise of fame as Lana Turner, to her last role.
Executive Producer
1940년대 뉴욕. 매력적이고, 냉소적인 언어의 소유자인 선원 마이클 오하라는 우연히 미국 최고의 변호사이자 부호인 아서 베니스터의 부인 엘사를 만난다. 강도로부터 엘사를 구한 마이클은 첫눈에 엘사에게 반하고, 엘사 또한 돈 때문에 결혼한 남편과는 달리 젊은 선원 마이클을 사랑하게 된다. 베니스터가 부인을 구해준 고마움으로 자신의 지중해 항해에 마이클을 선원으로 채용하면서 세 사람의 오묘한 관계는 시작된다. 시종일관 마이클로부터 눈을 떼지 못하는 엘사와 엘사를 거부하지 못하는 마 이클앞에 두 사람의 관계를 눈치챈 베니스터의 동료 조지 그리스비가 접근한다. 그는 현재의 삶에서 도망치고 싶으니, 마이클에게 자신을 죽여달라는 부탁을 하고, 그 대신 5천 달러를 주겠다는 거래를 한다. 그리고 자신은 소리 소문 없이 사라져 주겠다는 것. 평소 이성적이던 마이클도 엘사와의 사랑에 눈이 멀어 그의 거래를 받아들 이기로 하는데... 그러나 사라지기로 한 그리스비가 시체로 발견되고, 마이클은 살인혐의로 기소된다. 베니스터는 자청하여 마이클의 변론을 맡게 되는데...
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Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.
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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.
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A small, independent air delivery service is menaced by a mad scientist with a death ray machine that blows up planes in mid-flight.
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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 bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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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.
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A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.
Executive Producer
브로드웨이의 제작자 오스카 재피(Oscar Jaffe: 존 배리모어 분)는, 경력이라고는 속옷 광고가 전부인 여배우 지망생 밀드레드 플랏카(Mildred Plotka: 캐롤 롬바드)를 자신의 차기 작품 주연으로 캐스팅 한다. 주위의 만류에도 불구하고 기초부터 하나 하나 혹독하게 교육하며 릴리 갈런드(Lily Garland)라는 새 이름으로 밀드레드를 일약 스타로 만든 재피. 그로부터 3년 간 릴리와 함께 일하며 하는 작품마다 성공을 이룬다. 그러던 어느 날, 재피의 간섭으로 세상과 담쌓고 살던 릴리가 재피의 자기 중심적인 태도와 병적인 집착증, 질투에 제동을 건다. 재피는 릴리의 뜻을 존중하는 듯 릴리를 속이고 사립 탐정을 붙여 릴리의 뒤를 캐려고 하고 재피의 꿍꿍이를 알게 된 릴리는 헐리우드행 기차를 타고 재피를 떠난다. 릴리를 잃는 재피의 극단은 그녀의 뒤를 이을 새 얼굴을 찾지만 성공 하지 못하고 연이은 연극의 실패와 재피에게 남은 건 엄청난 빚뿐이다. 시카고에서 잔다르크를 상연했다 실패한 재피. 경찰들은 재피가 시카고를 떠나지 못하도록 감시하고 재피는 변장을 한 채 뉴욕행 기차, 20세기를 탄다. 그러다 재피 일행은 그 기차에 릴리가 탄 것을 알게 되고 릴리를 마지막 희망으로 생각한 재피 일행은 그녀의 마음을 되돌려 그녀와 계약을 하기 위해 줄다리기를 한다.
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재산을 노리고 구혼을 한 비행사인 킹 웨슬리와 결혼하고자 하는 엘리를 아버지 알렉산더가 반대하고 요트에 가둬 두자 엘리는 헤엄을 쳐 해안으로 도망쳐나와 뉴욕으로 가는 그레이하운드 버스에 오른다. 그 버스에는 근무 중에 술을 마셔 해고당한 신문 기자 피터가 맨 뒷 좌석에 자리잡고 있는데, 엘리는 피터와 맨 뒤의 좌석에 나란히 앉게 된다. 여행 도중 엘리가 소지품이 든 가방을 잃어버렸음에도 신고하기를 거부하자 피터는 엘리의 신분에 대해 의심을 하게 된다. 그레이하운드로 계속되는 여행 다음날 둘은 잠시 쉰 휴게실에서 느긋하게 아침 식사를 하다가 엘리와 피터는 버스를 놓치게 되고, 피터는 엘리의 신분을 알게 된다. 엘리는 피터에게 뉴욕에 도착하도록 도와주면 자신에 대한 특종 기사를 쓰게 해 주겠다며 거래를 제안하지만 부잣집 딸이나 부를 탐내 결혼하려는 킹 웨슬리 같은 사람한테 전혀 관심이 없다면서 퉁명스럽게 이 제안을 거절한다.하지만 북쪽 으로 향하는 여행에서 몇 가지 우연찮은 사고가 일어나게 되고 피터와 엘리는 여러 곤경에 같이 빠지게 되는데...
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Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
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Mussolini Speaks is a 1933 documentary film highlighting the first 10 years of Benito Mussolini’s rule as Prime Minister of Italy. The film, narrated by U.S. radio broadcaster Lowell Thomas, includes footage of the Fascists’ March on Rome, the Lateran Treaty between Italy and The Holy See, engineering projects in Italy and North Africa, and excerpts of speeches by Mussolini.
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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.
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A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".
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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.
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A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.
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A waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
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A Secret Service agent nabs a scalpel-happy doctor who runs drugs in caskets.
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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 Grover, but also wants to marry Lulu
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The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
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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.
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플로렌스는 목사였던 아버지의 사망 이후 신에 대한 믿음을 버린다. 이후 사기꾼 밥과 함께 사람들 앞에서 거짓 기적을 연기하며 살아가던 그녀는 시각 장애인 존을 만나 조금씩 세상을 다른 눈으로 보기 시작한다. 바바라 스탠윅의 인상적인 연기와 함께 프랭크 카프라의 ‘선’에 대한 관점이 잘 그려진 작품. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 클래식: 멜로와 코미디)
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A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
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A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.
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A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
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Brother and sister Hugh and Anne Dixon pull their fake suicide scam on Jim Cardew. Hugh leaves a note for Jim to take care of Anne. After Jim proposes and leaves money to Anne, he learns of their scheme. Not revealing his knowledge he gets them to return with him to his desert hideout where he and his outlaw gang reside and from which the Dixon's only escape is 30 miles of desert on foot.
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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.
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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.
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Captain Clive Branch, United States Marine Corps, is stationed at a Marine base in Haiti, and is having affairs with two women, Brenda Ritchie and Helen Arnold, each of whom is married to a Marine Captain. One of the husbands is murdered, and Branch, Helen and Brenda each find themselves high on the list of suspects.
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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.
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A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry the son of a judge. A story told through the eyes of ten people, all familiar with the victim and all with varying versions.
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John Meadham, in charge of a West Africa trading post, wire the home office in London that he is tired and worn out, and they need to send a replacement to take over. The company sends a stiff upper-lipper, Charles Summers, accompanied by his wife, Margaret. An antagonism develops between the two men from the moment Summers arrives.
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The owner of a border town gambling saloon falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother.
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A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.
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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.
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Betty Forrester, a college flirt who is determined to attract Harvey Porter, the school coach, starts playing around to make him jealous. Her roommate, Doris Marlowe, is a naive girl who falls madly in love with Tom, a sophisticated playboy who leads Doris on until he tires of her. At this point Doris pleads with Tom to love her, but he refuses. Betty, afraid for Doris' welfare, tries to save her from Tom by falsely attracting him to herself. Doris, crestfallen, leaves them and accidentally tumbles into an elevator shaft and dies. Harvey is furiously jealous and determines never to see Betty again until he learns the real reason for her actions with Tom; then he asks her to marry him.
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Constance Bannister enters into a trial marriage contract with Dr. Thorvald Ware and finds happiness with him. She defies his wishes by dancing at a charity ball in a revealing costume, however, and he dissolves the contract, not knowing that she is with child. A year passes. Constance marries Oliver Mowbray, and Thorvald marries Constance's sister, Grace. Both couples are quite unhappy and later obtain divorces. Oliver and Grace go to Europe, and Constance and Thorvald are married in a civil ceremony, united by their love both for each other and for their child.
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Michael Lanyard, a reformed cracks-man, adopts Adrienne, the daughter of an old friend, and goes to Southampton to attend a party celebrating her engagement to Bobby Crenshaw, the son of a wealthy society couple. The Count and Countess Polinac, international jewel thieves, also attend the party, and Count Polinac forces Lanyard to open the safe containing the jewelry of the guests by threatening to expose Lanyard's criminal past. Lanyard forestalls the count, however, and protects the valuables. The count and countess are arrested, and Michael's secret is kept safe.
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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.
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Silent film drama...
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In a banana republic, way south of the Texas border, a dumb-Dora American girl, Norma (Olive Borden), lets her ruby-red lips promise more than she is willing to deliver, and she finds herself a prisoner in a notorious dance-hall/brothel. But her American aviator boyfriend, Barry Blake (John Boles), is flying to her rescue. He does just that but, alas, they are quickly captured by a gang of outlaws. Possibly the many expensive pieces of jewelry she has gathered from the many male friends she has made along the way, including El Presidente, captured the outlaws' attention.
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Eve, a beautiful young nightclub dancer, turns down a string of wealthy and powerful suitors for Robert, a poor but ambitious young man. What Eve doesn't know is that Robert is the son of a wealthy businessman and is just pretending to be poor to see if she really loves him. However, an item in the society pages gives away Robert's true identity. Complications ensue.
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Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured by Kassim Ben Ali, leader of the Arab nationalists, but they refuse to divulge any information. They are finally rescued by French troops who storm the fortress and kill Kassim.
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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?
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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.
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Silent crime drama Directed by William James Craft.
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Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, two clever pickpockets, rob J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate; they demand a price for their silence, and he is forced to accede.
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Mistaken identity and female impersonation take place when indigents Billy Winthrop (George K. Arthur) and Ethel Winthrop (Dorothy Reviere) rent a fashionable apartment for a few days in order to impress rich uncle Hiram (Tom Ricketts.) Complications and misunderstanding arise.