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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]
The most unusual personage of all was Mr. Lasky’s mother, 82 years of age, who lives at the Ambassador Hotel, and who always spends her Sunday evenings at the Laskys—has been doing it for years—and who is touchingly fond of her son and daughter-in-law. I think this Lasky menage is the most extraordinary I have ever been in.
Jesse L. Lasky Sr. Movie Producer, Motion Picture Pioneer, Studio Executive. His father died when he was twenty years old, and his family, who didn't have a lot of money, managed to raise $3,000 to send him to Nome in the hope that he would strike rich in Alaska's gold rush. Unfortunately, he lost all of his money while panning for gold,...
Jesse L. Lasky (1880-1958) Jesse L. Lasky. Lasky, one of the first pioneers of the Hollywood film industry and its first genuine 'mogul', was not only a consummate showman and entrepreneur, but a jack-of-all-trades. Born in San Francisco in September 1880, the son of a shoe salesman, he attended high school in San Jose and held down his first ...
Jesse Lasky as the subject of TV's "This Is Your Life", June 12, 1957. Standing behind Jesse and Bessie Lasky (seated) are (l-r) host Ralph Edwards, older son Jesse Lasky, Jr., director Mervyn LeRoy; daughter Betty, producer Walter Wanger, younger son Billy; (in the rear, l-r) actors Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers, and Lasky's San Jose boyhood friend Jay McCabe
Jesse L. Lasky Timeline - 1880-1958. YEAR. EVENT. 1880. Jesse Louis Lasky born on September 13 in San Francisco CA, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky and his wife Sarah. 1888. Family, including sister Blanche, moves to San Jose CA. 1897. Family moves back to San Francisco.
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 ...
