The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row - Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures (1993. PB 2009)

A combination of biography, studio history, and film criticism that presents a new portrait of Cohn, who ran Columbia Pictures from 1932 until his death in 1958. Shows how his determination to eclipse his brother and his partnership with Frank Capra were behind the transformation of the cheap studio into one of the major movie producers in Hollywood. (Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.)