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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, with a loss of $7,000,000.00 in cash!
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The Lasky-DeMille Barn. Lasky memory is preserved in the Hollywood Heritage Museum, the old Lasky-De Mille barn which was moved to its permanent location at 2100 North Highland Avenue (across from the Hollywood Bowl) in 1980. Showing off the sign on the side of the Museum. documentary focusing on the International Stars of Norway.
May 5, 2021 · The story begins in 1912 when Adolph Zukor established the Famous Players Film Company. Then in 1914, along with Jesse L. Lasky’s Feature Play Company, Famous Players began distributing films through W. W. Hodkinson’s Paramount Pictures Corporation. During this time the classic Paramount logo, 24 stars, representing the film stars it had ...
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,...
June 2, 1971 (1971-06-02) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California. William Wadsworth Hodkinson (August 16, 1881 – June 2, 1971), known more commonly as W. W. Hodkinson, was born in Independence, Kansas. Known as The Man Who Invented Hollywood, [1] he opened one of the first movie theaters in Ogden, Utah in 1907 and within just a few years changed ...
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. [2]
