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- US film production and distribution company
- founded 1924. It grew out of a smaller
- company founded 1920 by Harry and Jack Cohn
- and Joe Brandt. Under Harry Cohn's guidance,
- Columbia became a major studio by the 1940s,
- producing such commercial hits as Gilda 1946.
- After Cohn's death in 1958 the studio
- remained successful, producing international
- films such as Lawrence of Arabia 1962. The
- company now also produces television films
- through its subsidiary Screen Gems.
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