Popular Culture and Media
- In the film Bugsy, Mickey Cohen is portrayed by actor Harvey Keitel. Keitel received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
- In the film So I Married an Axe Murderer, Mickey Cohen is mentioned as being a past inmate at Alcatraz.
- In the film The Black Dahlia, Mickey Cohen is mentioned as being an illegal bookkeeper taking bets on an underground boxing match.
- In the film L.A. Confidential, Mickey Cohen is portrayed by actor Paul Guilfoyle.
- Patrick Fischler plays Mickey Cohen in the 2011 video game L.A. Noire.
- In the upcoming film Gangster Squad, Cohen will be played by Sean Penn.
- In the L.A. Quartet book series by James Ellroy, Cohen plays a major supporting role in the three novels The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz.
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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