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LASKY, JESSE L. (1880–1958), U.S. film producer. Born in San Francisco, California, Lasky was one of the founders of the motion picture industry. As a young man he was a newspaper reporter, a gold prospector in Alaska, and then vaudeville promoter. His partnership with the producer Cecil B. De Mille started in 1911, when they collaborated in ...
And so, on January 11, 1927, 36 people met for dinner at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to hear a proposal to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Attendees included many of the biggest names in the industry at the time: Mayer, Mary Pickford, Sid Grauman, Jesse Lasky, George Cohen, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks ...
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer. He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor and William Wadsworth Hodkinson, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
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Jesse L. Lasky. Gender. Male. Born. September 13, 1880. Occupation. Producer. Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer film producer. He was the founder of ...
With Samuel Goldwyn, then his brother-in-law, and Cecil B. DeMille, whom he had met when DeMille was a young playwright, he formed a production company, the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. The trio threw open the doors for a booming era in Hollywood by producing the first full-length feature film, "The Squaw Man" in 1913.
Dec 12, 2013 · Tinseltown pioneers founded the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company on December 22nd, 1913. Movie moguls: Jesse Lasky (left) and Cecil B. DeMille in 1920 Short films and parts of films were made on the edges of what was then the fairly small Californian city of Los Angeles from the late 1890s and the first film studio was set up behind a Chinese ...
