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==Death== Cohn had been suffering from an [[enlarged heart]] when he had a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] while flying back from New York in December 1957. He was told to slow down.<ref name=varobit/> In February 1958, he suffered another heart attack at the [[Arizona Biltmore Hotel]] in Phoenix, Arizona, shortly after he had finished dinner. Cohn died in an ambulance en route to St. Joseph's Hospital. Practically the entire Hollywood community attended Cohn's extravagant funeral on stage 12 at the Columbia studios <ref name=varobit/> where [[Red Skelton]] made the famous (possibly apocryphal) quote: "It proves what Harry always said: Give the public what they want and they'll come out for it."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/06/want/ |title=Give the People What They Want and They'll Come β Quote Investigator |website=quoteinvestigator.com |date=December 6, 2014 |access-date=October 28, 2019}}</ref> Cohn is interred in the [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]] in Hollywood.
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