Sam Harris(1872-1941)
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Sam Harris was an extremely prolific and successful Broadway theatrical
producer (active from 1904 until his death in 1941) and theater owner,
first in partnership with the legendary
George M. Cohan. He bitterly broke with
Cohan over the issue of signing the Actors Equity contract (there are
several seemingly deliberate gross factual inaccuracies in the
characterization of him in
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942),
portrayed by Richard Whorf--not in the
least that he'd died the year before!). He produced numerous
historically important productions with
The Marx Brothers in conjunction with
George S. Kaufman,
Moss Hart and
Morrie Ryskind in their original Broadway
productions. Not to be confused with his notorious contemporary
Jed Harris.
