Death
Cohn was the last Hollywood movie mogul of the studio system era, retaining power after the departures of rivals such as Darryl F. Zanuck and Louis B. Mayer. He suffered a sudden heart attack in February 1958 at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, shortly after having finished dinner, and died in an ambulance en route to St. Joseph's Hospital.
Cohn and his funeral were the subject of the famous quote from Red Skelton, who remarked of Cohn's well-attended funeral, "It proves what Harry always said: give the public what they want and they'll come out for it." Harry Cohn was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
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