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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.
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer [1] who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
In 1913, along with DeMille and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later to become Samuel Goldwyn), Lasky established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with a starting capital of $26,500. His first feature was to be an epic western, The Squaw Man (1914), acquired for the then-princely sum of $15,000. It was to be filmed not at the ...
- September 13, 1880
- January 13, 1958
In 1913, along with DeMille and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later to become Samuel Goldwyn), Lasky established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with a starting capital of $26,500. His first feature was to be an epic western, The Squaw Man (1914) , acquired for the then-princely sum of $15,000.
- January 1, 1
- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
The barn was originally located on the corner of Vine and Selma in Hollywood. In 1914, Jesse produced the first feature length film in Hollywood called "The Squaw Man". His company later became known as the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and known today as Paramount Pictures.
The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company had a big hit with its first film, DeMille's western epic The Squaw Man, and its success jump-started the southern California film industry. For many years after that, the likeable Lasky showed he had the knack for turning out profitable pictures.
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Lasky had established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913 with himself as president and Cecil B. DeMille as director general. The firm ’ s first production effort was The Squaw Man, directed by DeMille, and was soon followed by Rose of the Rancho and The Virginian .
