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Cohn was born in Freeport, Illinois but subsequently moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he began work as a Newspaper editor and Journalist . He then moved to Galveston, Texas where he ran a newspaper. Following his career in journalism, he moved to Arizona and participated as a secretary in the Arizona Constitutional Convention which led to its statehood in 1912 . In the 1920s , he moved to Los Angeles, California and began working as a writer, first doing Title Card s for Silent Films and, later, scripts and adaptations. His work on adapting the Jazz Singer, one of the first motion pictures with sound, from a play and short story by Samson Raphaelson , led to his first and only nomination for an Academy Award . During this period, he was a prolific writer and wrote more than 100 scripts, roughly 40 of which were produced into films. In the 1930s , he retired from screenwriting and was appointed the Police Commissioner Of Los Angeles , as well as a short story writer. He died of a heart condition in 1951 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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