Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him
to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such
a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe there were other
Harry Cohns: the only studio president who was also head of production;
the ex-song plugger who scrutinized scripts and grilled writers at story
conferences; a man who could see actresses as either "broads" or
goddesses. Drawing on personal interviews as well as previously
unstudied source material (conference notes, memos, and especially the
teletypes between Harry and his brother, Jack), Bernard Dick offers a
radically different portrait of the man who ran Columbia Pictures -- and
who "had to be boss" -- from 1932 to 1958.