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panzer the great & terrible	Jun 13 2009, 06:17 PM
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,340 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Absolutely. The book King Cohn is a great read. He certainly had enemies, and if he figured he was safe bullying somebody, he would -- like plenty of people I've known. A little flattery and a little of one's own intimidation seemed to work well enough with him, but if he caught you trying to trick him in any way he would never forgive or forget. The guy had amazing movie sense in that he liked movies and enjoyed them as an ordinary guy would. There are no tales of Cohn butchering somebody's masterpiece the way Zanuck, Mayer, Thalberg and Jack Warner did. If he thought you were a pro he let you do your thing. He wasn't one of those fools who thinks he knows everything, like some in the business today. I visited his grave in Hollywood Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever) about 15 years ago; it's the grandest tombstone I ever saw, nearly as big as a house trailer, one side of it with his name and the other side with his wife's. Tantalizingly, her date of death wasn't filled in. I don't know if she is buried somewhere else, if she hadn't yet died at that time, or if she left the bastard for good. Need to go back and check that. There are quite a few other movie people buried there, including Doug Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Jayne Mansfield (with a pink tombstone) and Tully Marshall, whose inscription reads "Beloved Actor." It's a swell place if you're a movie nut because it's so compact; you can do it all in an hour. Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Jun 18 2009, 07:53 AM.
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