So Myrna and I are visiting Linda Dozoretz, high in the hills of Beverly... Linda shows Myrna the Google home page with The Flintstones integrated into the Google art celebrating the "50th" Flintstones Birthday. Out flowed from Myrna cathartic (tears/laughter) stories of Ralph Cohn, nephew of Harry Cohn (Columbia Pictures legend) who was entrusted to head up a new division called "Screen Gems". A bit déclassé, this television stuff. They thought TV was "happening" and they needed content. They had to be a player and get on the air. Columbia created what appeared to be two winners: Rin Tin Tin and something called Circus Boy. (Myrna recalls Jay North, later of Dennis The Menace, starring in it). A powerhouse lady named Joyce Selznick (who had been a Columbia casting director and "discovered" the recently...
- 10/7/2010
- by Freddie Gershon
- Huffington Post
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