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Dec 12, 2013 · Lasky, Goldfish and Cecil B. DeMille, all in their early thirties, formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913, with Lasky as president, Goldfish as general manager and DeMille as director-general. They knew nothing much about movies, but they learned as they went along.
Nov 1, 2010 · Next week’s installment, “The Birth of Hollywood” (1907-20), introduces several men who became Hollywood’s power brokers, including Jesse Lasky (Paramount) and Samuel Goldwyn — originally named...
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Lasky was the descendant of German immigrants. His grandparents crossed the United States in a covered wagon and settled in California. He was born in San Francisco in 1880 to Sarah (Platt) and Isaac Lasky. The family moved to San Jose, where Jesse attended high school and learned to play the cornet. He acquired some business skills by helping out ...
From 1916 through 1932, Lasky was in charge of Paramount's productions in both Hollywood and New York. Under his guidance, the studio cranked out hit after hit. Lasky also pioneered a near-monopolistic distribution method, which ensured his company's success. For a theater owner to show a Paramount film, the exhibitor had to agree to book all the s...
Everything changed at Paramount in 1932. The company's key investments in the stock market evaporated in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown. The Great Depressionhit Lasky especially hard. His personal stock holdings were all but wiped out. A belt-tightening was inevitable in order for Paramount to survive. For their poor management of the company...
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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.
Jul 22, 2015 · The second was the Lasky Feature Play Company, started by another Jew named Jesse Lasky who was a native of San Francisco. He borrowed money from his brother-in-law, (another Polish Jew), named Sam Goldfish, who would later become Sam Goldwyn, to form the company.
In 1913 Lasky and his sister Blanche's husband, Samuel Goldfish (before changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn), teamed with DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with Lasky as president. [3]
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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.
