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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.
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.
Jan 28, 2024 · Legend tells that Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille originally planned to film their first joint venture — a feature length film — in Flagstaff, Arizona instead of New York. (A historical marker located in Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California.)
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Lasky was the descendant of German immigrants. His grandparents crossed the United States in a covered wagon and settled in California. He was born in San Francisco in 1880 to Sarah (Platt) and Isaac Lasky. The family moved to San Jose, where Jesse attended high school and learned to play the cornet. He acquired some business skills by helping out ...
From 1916 through 1932, Lasky was in charge of Paramount's productions in both Hollywood and New York. Under his guidance, the studio cranked out hit after hit. Lasky also pioneered a near-monopolistic distribution method, which ensured his company's success. For a theater owner to show a Paramount film, the exhibitor had to agree to book all the s...
Everything changed at Paramount in 1932. The company's key investments in the stock market evaporated in the wake of the Wall Street meltdown. The Great Depressionhit Lasky especially hard. His personal stock holdings were all but wiped out. A belt-tightening was inevitable in order for Paramount to survive. For their poor management of the company...
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Dec 12, 2013 · Tinseltown pioneers founded the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company on December 22nd, 1913.
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.
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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.
