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Despite his penny pinching, gambling brought Harry Cohn his biggest thrills and his greatest triumphs at the box office; e.g., no one else liked the chances of The Jolson Story, From Here to Eternity or Picnic. Cohn made millions on them...
...tends the roses), and reads until he picks up Bernice at the station. After dinner Cozzens goes to his study, "where I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer." Cozzens' sole hobby is a pop record collection, vintage 1920 to 1927-Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman-which he plays by the hour on his hi-fi set. "Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking...
JERRY LEWIS, who tries not to be funny, and fails-chiefly because his squeaky voice is a weird amalgam of Al Jolson and Baby Snooks-in Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody (Decca). But his album, Jerry Lewis Just Sings, is a bestseller...
Died. Jean Schwartz, 78, Hungarian-born oldtime vaudeville pianist and songwriter, who composed Chinatown, My Chinatown (with longtime Partner William Jerome), Al Jolson's Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, and Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...guide Hollywood through adolescence. In the '20s at Warner Bros., Zanuck made so much money for the studio with his silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle by featuring such early hair-triggered tough guys as Edward G. (Little Caesar) Robinson...