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Jesse LASKY, Professor (Associate) | Cited by 4,661 | of Pennsylvania State University, PA (Penn State) | Read 156 publications | Contact Jesse LASKY
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.
CANDLE IN THE SUN by Bessie Mona Lasky [Kindle; revised and footnoted, Square Circles Publishing, 2019]. First published in 1957, this is the revised and footnoted autobiography of Bessie Lasky—wife of Hollywood founding father Jesse L. Lasky—a successful artist in her own right who wanted nothing more than to escape the glitter and glamor and live in her own simple world of poetry, art ...
In 1916, Zukor’s Famous Players merged with The Jesse L. Lasky Company, which was producing films in Hollywood (including the first feature-length film ever produced in Hollywood – The Squaw Man) and also using Paramount Pictures as a distributor.
Lasky described the events of the takeover of Paramount in a series of letters to DeMille in 1916. Between April and July, the merger discussions were tenuous, and the plans were canceled as late as June before they were resumed again: Jesse L. Lasky to Cecil B. DeMille, June 9, 1916, pp. 2-3; Jesse L. Lasky to Cecil B. DeMille, June 20, 1916 ...
From 1916 to 1932 Lasky ruled Paramount with Adolph Zukor, and called them “the best years of my life.”. Jesse Lasky Jr.'s birthday celebration, circa 1924, attended by Paramount juveniles and classmates. Center front, Jesse Jr.; front row: Jesse Lasky Sr., behind him, juvenile star Buddy Rogers; third row, Bessie in profile; to her left at ...
LASKY, Jesse L.Producer. Nationality: American. Born: Jesse Louis Lasky in San Jose, California, 13 September 1880. Education: Attended San Jose High School. Family ...
