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Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer [1] who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Learn about Jesse Lasky, one of the first gentlemen of Hollywood, who produced hundreds of films and co-founded Paramount Pictures. Explore his timeline, filmography, image gallery, legacy, contemporaries, family and books.
Jesse Lasky was a Jewish American film producer. Born in San Francisco, California, Lasky was one of the founders of the motion picture industry. As a young man he was a newspaper reporter, a gold prospector in Alaska, and then vaudeville promoter.
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.
Dec 12, 2013 · Many other fly-by-night outfits followed, but the first major studio was headed by Jesse L. Lasky. Born in San Francisco in 1880, Lasky began his career as a not very successful cornet player and years afterwards he would call his autobiography I Blow My Own Horn .
Recipient of the first Milestone Award. It was a star-studded night at the Coconut Grove on September 12, 1951, when Jesse Lasky became the first recipient of the Screen Producers Milestone Award “for his historic contribution to the American Motion Picture.”
Jesse L. Lasky Timeline - 1880-1958. Jesse Louis Lasky born on September 13 in San Francisco CA, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky and his wife Sarah. [summer?] Vacation in Adirondaks, meets Bessie Ginzberg December, marries Bessie Ginzberg in Boston.
