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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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jeff Massie <jmassie@primenet.com> (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpousesMrs. Kathleen Watson (née Nolan)(March 19, 1939 - July 2, 1941) (his death)Alice Nolan(June 29, 1907 - November 24, 1930) (her death)
- Mrs. Kathleen Watson had formerly been married to director Marcel De Sano and the late Victor M. Watson, a newspaper editor. George Brent was her brother.
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