Editing Harry Cohn (section)

===Accusations of mob connections===
Cohn has been accused of having ties with organized crime. In 1957, mobsters threatened [[Sammy Davis Jr.]] with violence because the performer was involved with actress [[Kim Novak]], who was under contract with Columbia Pictures. There are several accounts of what happened, but most agree that the organized crime figures that threatened Davis were close to Cohn; according to these accounts, as Novak was white, Cohn was worried a backlash against the interracial relationship would hurt the studio.<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite news |last1=Lanzendorfer |first1=Joy |title=Hollywood Loved Sammy Davis Jr. Until He Dated a White Movie Star |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/hollywood-loved-sammy-davis-jr-until-he-dated-white-movie-star-180964395/ |access-date=October 6, 2019 |work=Smithsonian |date=August 9, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> According to one account, Cohn called racketeer [[John Roselli]], who was told to inform Davis that he must stop seeing Novak. To try to scare Davis, Roselli had him kidnapped for a few hours.<ref>{{cite book | last=Reid | first=Ed |author2=Demaris, Ovid | title=The Green Felt Jungle | location=Cutchogue, New York | publisher=Buccaneer Books | year=1963 | lccn=63022217}}</ref> Another account relates that the threat was conveyed to Davis's father by mobster [[Mickey Cohen]].<ref name="Smithsonian"/> Davis was threatened with the loss of his other eye or a broken leg if he did not marry a black woman within two days. Davis in turn sought the protection of Chicago mobster [[Sam Giancana]], who said that he could protect him in Chicago and Las Vegas but not California.<ref name="Kashner">{{cite magazine |last1=Kashner |first1=Sam |title=The Color of Love |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/1999/03/sammy-davis-kim-novak-dating |access-date=October 6, 2019 |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=September 2013 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Smithsonian"/><ref>December 2014 BBC documentary, ''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04w7wgr Sammy Davis, Jr. The Kid in the Middle]''.</ref>

Cohn was one of the influences (as well as [[Louis B. Mayer]]) for the character of studio boss Jack Woltz in the 1972 crime film ''[[The Godfather]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hollywood and the Mob: Movies, Mafia, Sex and Death|isbn= 9781408827864|year= 2011|publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing|first= Tim|last= Adler|pages=117–119}}</ref>