Sam H. Harris
Sam H. Harris (February 3, 1872 – July 3, 1941) was a Broadway producer and theater owner. Career Samuel Henry Harris was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side to poor Jewish parents. After a stint as a cough drop salesman and boxing manager, Harris's first production was Theodore Kremer's The Evil That Men Do, which he co-produced with Al Woods in 1903. Harris found success in 1904 as the producing partner of George M. Cohan, with whom he produced eighteen Broadway musicals, fifteen of which were Cohan's own. In 1908, Harris married Alice Nolan (1886/1888 — 1930), sister of Cohan's second wife, Agnes. From 1916 to 1919, most of these productions were in the Candler Theater on 42nd street, renamed the Cohan and Harris Theater in 1916. Harris separated from Cohan after a 1919 actors strike, and renamed the theater the Sam H. Harris Theatre. He sold it in 1926 to the Shubert Organization, but it continued to operate under the Harris name for the next 68 years, even after it was converted to a movie house in 1933; the theater finally closed in 1994 and, except for its facade, was demolished in 1997. He proposed a musical revue to