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Motion Picture Screenwriter, Author. The son of producer and Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Lasky, he is best known for writing the screenplays for the Cecil B. DeMille motion picture Bible epics Samson and Delilah (1948) and The Ten Commandments (1955). In addition to over fifty screenplays, he also wrote novels and...
Jan 1, 1975 · Hardcover – January 1, 1975. Jesse Lasky, Jr. is the son of one of Hollywood's greatest pioneers, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in an era that was as fabulous (and is now as extinct) as the Roman Empire under Nero. With honesty and gusto and in a wealth of anecdotes, Lasky tells of these halcyon days and the Empire's decline ...
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And so, on January 11, 1927, 36 people met for dinner at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to hear a proposal to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Attendees included many of the biggest names in the industry at the time: Mayer, Mary Pickford, Sid Grauman, Jesse Lasky, George Cohen, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks ...
Jesse L. Lasky. Producer: The Dictator. Lasky, one of the first pioneers of the Hollywood film industry and its first genuine 'mogul', was not only a consummate showman and entrepreneur, but a jack-of-all-trades. Born in San Francisco in September 1880, the son of a shoe salesman, he attended high school in San Jose and held down his first job at seventeen as a reporter for the San Francisco Post. He...
Jesse L. Lasky (1880-1958) Jesse L. Lasky. Lasky, one of the first pioneers of the Hollywood film industry and its first genuine 'mogul', was not only a consummate showman and entrepreneur, but a jack-of-all-trades. Born in San Francisco in September 1880, the son of a shoe salesman, he attended high school in San Jose and held down his first ...
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. Her late brother, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., was the screenwriter of over 50 films, including a long partnership with the DeMilles. She grew up in and around ...
From 1916 to 1932 Lasky ruled Paramount with Adolph Zukor, and called them “the best years of my life.”. Jesse Lasky Jr.'s birthday celebration, circa 1924, attended by Paramount juveniles and classmates. Center front, Jesse Jr.; front row: Jesse Lasky Sr., behind him, juvenile star Buddy Rogers; third row, Bessie in profile; to her left at ...
