'J.J.' COHN, 100, ACADEMY FOUNDER.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Joseph Judson "J.J." Cohn, the last remaining co-founder of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has died. He was 100. Cohn died in his sleep Jan. 12 at his Beverly Hills home, Academy spokesman Frank Lieberman said. Cohn remained an active member of the Academy after helping start the organization in 1927. Most recently, he was a voter for Oscar nominations in the feature documentary category. Louis B. Mayer Noun 1. Louis B. Mayer - United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957) Louis Burt Mayer, Mayer , Irving Thalberg, Eddie Mannix, Benny Thau and Cohn formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio's nucleus during its heyday. Cohn was born Dec. 3, 1895, in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . He joined Fox Film Co. in 1915, working in the scenario and film-editing department. He joined Samuel Goldwyn Co. three years later as a cashier and purchasing agent and moved with the company to New Jersey. Cohn moved to California in 1919 when Goldwyn acquired Triangle Studio in Culver City, becoming the company's business manager and later its production manager. When Goldwyn and Metro merged in 1924, he became MGM's production manager. He became an executive producer in 1937 and a vice president in 1948. An intensely private man, Cohn did not grant an on-the-record interview until 1977 at age 82, when he told the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). he was proud of his role in making expensive-looking MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. films at low cost. "Everyone thought we were the most expensive picture-makers in town," Cohn said. "In actual fact, we were among the least expensive. I know that at Fox, one time, they were astounded a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, when they found out how low our costs were." Cohn is survived by three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. |
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