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Jesse Lasky as the subject of TV's "This Is Your Life", June 12, 1957. Standing behind Jesse and Bessie Lasky (seated) are (l-r) host Ralph Edwards, older son Jesse Lasky, Jr., director Mervyn LeRoy; daughter Betty, producer Walter Wanger, younger son Billy; (in the rear, l-r) actors Richard Arlen and Buddy Rogers, and Lasky's San Jose boyhood friend Jay McCabe
Jesse L. Lasky Sr. Movie Producer, Motion Picture Pioneer, Studio Executive. His father died when he was twenty years old, and his family, who didn't have a lot of money, managed to raise $3,000 to send him to Nome in the hope that he would strike rich in Alaska's gold rush. Unfortunately, he lost all of his money while panning for gold,...
Jesse L. Lasky Timeline - 1880-1958. YEAR. EVENT. 1880. Jesse Louis Lasky born on September 13 in San Francisco CA, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky and his wife Sarah. 1888. Family, including sister Blanche, moves to San Jose CA. 1897. Family moves back to San Francisco.
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In 1916, Adolph Zukor created a three-way merger of his Famous Players Film Company, Jesse L. Lasky's Lasky Feature Play Company, and Paramount. The new company was called Famous Players-Lasky and grew quickly. Lasky ran the production side. Hiram Abrams was in charge of distribution and Zukor handled the business side of the company.
[L-R] Hollywood historian Marc Wanamaker; Miles Kreuger, ... Dec 2015: A bronze bust, created in 1933, of Jesse L. Lasky, by prominent sculptor, Boris Lovett-Lorski, has found a permanent home with Hollywood Heritage at the Lasky-DeMille Barn. (L-R) Marc Wanamaker, photo archivist and owner of Bison
The most unusual personage of all was Mr. Lasky’s mother, 82 years of age, who lives at the Ambassador Hotel, and who always spends her Sunday evenings at the Laskys—has been doing it for years—and who is touchingly fond of her son and daughter-in-law. I think this Lasky menage is the most extraordinary I have ever been in.
