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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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). In addition to over fifty screenplays, he also wrote novels and...
Apr 25, 2017 · BETTY LASKY is the daughter of Jesse L. Lasky, one of the founders of the movie industry. She grew up in Hollywood and has been closely associated with many of the major people in the industry. She has worked for The Players Showcase magazine as movie editor and writer. The historical accuracy of this book speaks of the three years of ...
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
The Jesse L. Lasky papers span the years 1906-1975 (bulk 1930s-1950s) and encompass 4.2 linear feet. The collection contains a variety of material relating to Lasky's career in film, television, and radio. There is correspondence, scripts, financial records, photograph albums, and miscellaneous writings by Lasky, including the original ...
