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Jesse L. Lasky
Pioneer + Producer + Scriptwriter
Male
Born
Sep 13, 1880
Hometown
San Francisco
Died
Jan 13, 1958
Death Place
Beverly Hills, Ca...
Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer. He was a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky, Jr.
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Jesse L. Lasky
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CHILDHOOD
1880
Birth
Born on September 13, 1880.
THIRTIES
1913
32 Years Old
Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that led to the motion picture business. His 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.
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1916
35 Years Old
In 1916, their company merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to create the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
1920
39 Years Old
In 1920, Famous Players-Lasky built a large studio facility in Astoria, New York, now known as the Kaufman Astoria Studios.
FORTIES
1927
46 Years Old
In 1927, Lasky was one of the thirty-six people who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
FIFTIES
1933
52 Years Old
Financial problems arose within the industry as a result of the Great Depression and the Famous Players-Lasky Company went into receivership in 1933.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1945
64 Years Old
Lasky then found work as a producer at one of the big studios until 1945 when he formed his own production company.
1951
70 Years Old
He made his last film in 1951 and in 1957 published his autobiography, I Blow My Own Horn.
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1958
77 Years Old
Died on January 13, 1958.
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