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  2. Tsuguharu Foujita's painting of a 17-year-old Lasky, dating from a trip to Paris with his mother in the 1920s, appears on page 180 of Lasky's autobiography, Whatever Happened to Hollywood?, which was published by Funk and Wagnalls in 1975. Lasky died on April 11, 1988, from pancreatic cancer. Writer Film

  3. Personal life and death. Jesse L. Lasky died from a heart attack in Beverly Hills, aged 77. He is interred in Hollywood Forever Cemetery, adjacent to Paramount Studios, in Hollywood. He and his wife Bessie had three children Jesse L. Jr., Betty and Billy. In 1957 he published his autobiography, I Blow My Own Horn. Legacy

  4. Jesse Louis Lasky Jr. Motion Picture Screenwriter, Author. The son of producer and Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Lasky, he is best known for writing the screenplays for the Cecil B. DeMille motion picture Bible epics Samson and Delilah (1948) and The Ten Commandments (1955).

  5. Apr 13, 1988 · Jesse L. Lasky Jr., an author and screenwriter, died of cancer on Monday at his home in London. He was 79 years old and had been dividing his time for more than 25 years between residences in...

  6. Never Trust a Gambler is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Dane Clark, Cathy O'Donnell and Tom Drake. Plot. Steve Garry, insisting he has quit gambling, asks his ex-wife Virginia Merrill if he can lie low at her Los Angeles house while avoiding testifying in a murder trial. She reluctantly consents ...

  7. Jesse Lasky Jr.. Writer: The Ten Commandments. Jesse Lasky Jr. was born in the golden age of Hollywood. The son of the man who produced the film town's first feature in a barn, grew up surrounded by the greatest stars, writers, and musicians of the 1920s.

  8. 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 business.

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