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1 day ago · It returned $245,000 on a $15,000 investment and launched the careers of director Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse L. Lasky (later a cofounder of Paramount Pictures), and Samuel Goldwyn (the ‘G’ in MGM
2 days ago · On June 28, 1916, Paramount combined its operations with the Famous Players Film Company (founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor) and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company (founded in 1913 by Jesse L. Lasky) to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, although it continued to use the Paramount Pictures name for its film business.
Sep 20, 2024 · Paramount Pictures Corp. was established in 1914 by W.W. Hodkinson as a film distributor, offering Adolph Zukor’s Famous Players Film Company, the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, and other producers an outlet for their movies.
4 days ago · Jesse Lasky Jr., a co-writer on The Ten Commandments, described how DeMille would customarily spread out prints of paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema to inform his set designers on the look he wanted to achieve.
Sep 11, 2024 · THIS ITEM "Jesse L. Lasky presents Salomy Jane ..." lobby card, 11 x 14. Container / Volume. Box 1, folder 65. View item information in Archives at Yale. View full finding aid for Western silent films lobby card collection (WA MSS S-2553) Access And Usage Rights. Public. Rights.
Sep 20, 2024 · 03 Merger: In 1916, Adolph Zukor merged his Famous Players Film Company with Jesse L. Lasky's Lasky Feature Play Company and Paramount Pictures, forming Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
Sep 22, 2024 · In October 1919 LeRoy, just turned 19, approached his cousin Jesse L. Lasky, a former vaudevillian who was twenty years his senior. Lasky was a partner with rising movie moguls Samuel Goldwyn and Adolf Zukor at its New York headquarters at Famous Players–Lasky. Lasky furnished LeRoy with note to the employment department at their Hollywood ...
