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Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. was a pioneer Hollywood film producer. He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that led to the motion […]
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 ...
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Jesse Lasky was a Jewish American 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 ...
Betty Lasky (October 11, 1922 – January 7, 2017) was an American film historian and author. Life [ edit ] She was the daughter of pioneering producer Jesse L. Lasky , a key founder of Paramount Pictures and Bessie Mona Ginsberg Lasky, a painter known for her depictions of the California missions. [1]
Vaudeville led to Lasky's involvement with the motion picture business. 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.
Jesse L. Lasky, Jr. (September 19, 1910 – April 11, 1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, playwright and poet. Contents. 1 Early life; 2 Career; 3 World War II; 4 Later life; 5 Filmography; 6 External links; Early life. He was the son of film producer Jesse Lasky, Sr. and his wife, Bessie Ida Ginsberg.
