Svengali Of The Silver Screen

Svengali of the Silver ScreenOn the Afternoon of February 27, 1958, in an ambulance headed for a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, Harry Cohn – the last tycoon, the last of Hollywood's one-man studio bosses – died of a coronary thrombosis. In a town and an industry where fear, hatred, envy and vulgarity are sometimes raised to the level of an art form, Harry Cohn was the king of them all. He was, it was said, the most feared, the most envied and the most vulgar man of his time. When the word of his...