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Jun 11, 2024 · Lasky's sister, Blanche, married Samuel Goldwyn and in 1913 Lasky and Goldwyn teamed with Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. With limited funds, they rented a barn near Los Angeles where they made Hollywood's first feature film, DeMille's The Squaw Man. Known today as the Lasky-DeMille Barn, it is home to the Hollywood Heritage Museum.
Lasky hosts a farewell party in 1943 at Florentine Gardens, Hollywood, for Jesse Jr., 1st. Lieutenant, U.S. Army Signal Corps, leaving for the South Pacific, .
This led to Paramount-Lasky and ownership of 1500 theatres throughout America; and finally, after a series of successful pictures and all kinds of showmanship, wherein Lasky brought the biggest stars from Europe, including Maurice Chevalier, etc., the crash came, then the Depression which kept theatre managers from paying their rentals; and, in one terrible week, Lasky found himself wiped out ...
In 1913 he, his brother-in-law Samuel Goldwyn, and Cecil B. DeMille became partners and founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, which would later be known as Lasky-Famous Players Studio and finally by the name it is known today, Paramount.
Other articles where Jesse Lasky is discussed: Samuel Goldwyn: With his brother-in-law Jesse Lasky, then a vaudeville producer, he cofounded the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company. Their initial release was Cecil B. deMille’s Squaw Man (1913), one of the first full-length feature films made in Hollywood. In 1917 the company merged with Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film…
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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