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Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. In 1913 Lasky and his sister Blanche's husband, Samuel Goldfish (before changing his name to Samuel Goldwyn), teamed with DeMille and Oscar Apfel to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with Lasky as president.
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.
In 1913, along with DeMille and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later to become Samuel Goldwyn), Lasky established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with a starting capital of $26,500. His first feature was to be an epic western, The Squaw Man (1914) , acquired for the then-princely sum of $15,000.
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Dec 12, 2013 · Lasky, Goldfish and Cecil B. DeMille, all in their early thirties, formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913, with Lasky as president, Goldfish as general manager and DeMille as director-general.
In 1913, along with DeMille and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later to become Samuel Goldwyn), Lasky established the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with a starting capital of $26,500. His first feature was to be an epic western, The Squaw Man (1914), acquired for the then-princely sum of $15,000. It was to be filmed not at the ...
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- January 13, 1958
In 1913 the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. was launched with Lasky as president, his best friend Cecil B. DeMille as director-general, and brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) as general manager and treasurer.
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With Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) 1. The Cheat (1915) A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.
