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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
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 L. LASKY was one of the pioneers of Hollywood’s motion picture industry. Born in San Francisco, California, on September 13, 1880, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky, his early years were characterized by failure.
In 1913 Lasky joined his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and his best friend Cecil B. DeMille to form The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. Director General DeMille took his cast and crew west, rented a barn on Selma and Vine, and made Hollywood's first feature film, The Squaw Man.
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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Impresario who formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company with brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and Cecil B. DeMille in 1913. The success of their 1914 production, "Squaw Man," put both the company and Hollywood on the map.
