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In 1911, Lasky was the producer of two Broadway musicals: Hello, Paris and A La Broadway. Beatrice deMille was also producing plays on Broadway and she introduced him to her son Cecil B. DeMille. Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company
In 1913, along with DeMille and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later to become Samuel Goldwyn), Lasky established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with a starting capital of $26,500. His first feature was to be an epic western, The Squaw Man (1914), acquired for the then-princely sum of $15,000. It was to be filmed not at the ...
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JESSE L. LASKY was one of the pioneers of Hollywood’s motion picture industry. Born in San Francisco, California, on September 13, 1880, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky, his early years were characterized by failure. Growing up in San Jose, he learned to play the cornet and imagined he would be discovered by John Philip Sousa ...
The Famous Players–Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor 's Famous Players Film Company – originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays – and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. [2]
Jesse Louis Lasky was born on Sept. 13, 1880, in San Francisco, Calif. He formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, a film production company, with director Cecil B. DeMille in 1913. In 1916, Lasky merged his company with the Famous Players Film Company, owned by producer Adolph Zukor. In 1917, Lasky and Zukor bought Paramount Pictures ...
Jesse L. Lasky. The son of a shoe salesman, Lasky was born in San Francisco in 1880. As a young man he traveled to Alaska in search of gold. Attracted to the theater, he embarked on a tour of the America in a duo act with his sister Blanche (who later became the first wife of Samuel Goldwyn). He worked his way into theatrical production and ...
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Jesse L. Lasky. Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. was a pioneer Hollywood film producer. He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that led to the motion picture ...
