Howland chamberlain biography of christopher walken
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Alexander H. Cohen papers
1880-2003 [bulk 1938-2003]Producer Alexander Henry Cohen was born on July 24, 1920 in New York City. He was the elder son of Alexander H. Cohen senior, a successful businessman, and Laura Tarantous Cohen. After his father's death, when Cohen was four, his mother married a banker and the family moved to Park Avenue. His younger brother Gerry committed suicide in 1954, at which point in time Cohen severed his relationship with his mother.
He was introduced to the theater, as a boy, by an uncle. Cohen attended Columbia University and New York University, but did not graduate. Willing to take risks, Cohen had spent most of his inheritance, by the time he was twenty-one, on mostly unsuccessful theater projects, such as running two summer theaters on Long Island. Martin Balsam, Irene Dailey, and Ronald Alexander worked at one of these, the Red Barn Theatre in Locust Valley, Long Island.
Cohen's first success came when he invested $5,000 in Angel Street (1941) by Patrick Hamilton, which later became the film Gaslight. He became known as "Broadway's Millionaire Boy Angel." He married Jocelyn Newmark in 1942 and they later had a daughter, Barbara. Cohen was drafted into the Army in 1943. He served in the 302nd Co. 94th Division in Salina, Kansas,
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List of Midwestern films sequester the 1980s
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