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		In 1927, Jesse L. Lasky was one of the original thirty-six who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		Jesse Lasky then partnered with Mary Pickford to produce films but within a few years she dissolved their business relationship.
		Jesse L. Lasky died in 1958 and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jesse-Lasky (686 words)

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		Lasky with reference to the said contract to induce said Valentino to execute the same or for any other parties, nor any agreement or promises made or suggested which was not incorporated in the said agreement of January 17, 1922.
		Lasky and said Valentino when the negotiations for said contract of November 28, 1922 and January 17, 1922 were being carried on, and that affiant also had negotiations himself with said Valentino, that neither affiant or Mr.
		Lasky or any other representative of the corporation so far as known by affiant at any time made any representations or statements or held out any inducement to the said Valentino to enter into either of said contracts except the terms and conditions which were incorporated in said respective contracts, that neither affiant nor Mr.
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	Jesse L. Lasky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 - January 13, 1958) was a pioneer (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood film producer.
		Jesse Lasky then partnered with (United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979)) Mary Pickford to produce films but within a few years she dissolved their business relationship.
		Jesse L. Lasky died in 1958 and was interred in the (Click link for more info and facts about Hollywood Forever Cemetery) Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jesse_l._lasky.htm (357 words)

	Jewish Heroes in America
		Lasky was the son of Isaac and Sarah (Platt) Lasky.
		Lasky was married to Bessie Ginzberg on December 11, 1909.
		Lasky was a pioneer in the film industry who participated in developing it from one reelers to full length movies, from silents to talkies and from fl and white to color films.
	www.fau.edu /library/br111.htm (553 words)

	Anita King - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following her hospital recovery from an accident in a race in Phoenix, Arizona she gave up on competitive racing and, with the rapid growth of the Hollywood film industry, returned to acting using the stage name Anita King.
		Her live theatre experience opened the door to small roles with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company under director Cecil B. DeMille that evolved to good secondary parts in comedy films.
		With the backing of studio boss Jesse L. Lasky, and his newly formed Paramount Pictures, they got the Kissel Motor Car Company to provide her with a vehicle equipped with Firestone tires.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anita_King (572 words)

	Movie Pioneers - Jesse L. Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jesse L. Lasky was born in San Francisco but raised in San Jose, California, where he graduated from Santa Clara High School.
		Lasky, son of a shoe salesman, tried a wide variey of jobs from musician to travelling to Alaska to pan for gold.
		Lasky was an associate producer at RKO Radio Pictures, and then settled in as an independent producer at Warner Bros.
	www.learnaboutmovieposters.com /newsite/HISTORY/PEOPLE/JesseLasky/JesseLasky.asp (647 words)

	Jesse Louis Lasky -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Jesse was the son of Ohed, and the grandson of Boaz and Ruth.
		The appellation “son of Jesse” served as a synonym for David both at Saul's court and, subsequently, when David became king.
		Jesse Haines was born on July 22, 1893, in Clayton, Ohio.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9314605?tocId=9314605 (772 words)

	Chronomedia: 1913
		November 23 Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company is incorporated in New York with a capital of $50,000.
		December 20 Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company arrives at the Alexandra Hotel in Los Angeles to prepare for production of its first film, The Squaw Man.
		Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company thus becomes the first production company to establish a base in Hollywood.
	www.terramedia.co.uk /Chronomedia/years/1913.htm (1211 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		JESSE L. LASKY is first vice-president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and undoubtedly one of the best informed motion picture executives in the world.
		Jesse L. Lasky is comparatively a young man. He experienced all the vicissitudes of the theatrical producing business embarking upon the motion picture sea.
		Lasky was born in San Francisco and after experiences in Alaska and elsewhere went to New York, where he engaged in theatrical work, produced many vaudeville musical tabloids and after numerous ventures finally entered the motion picture field, as stated.
	silentgents.com /DLasky.html (290 words)

	Paramount Pictures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until this time films were sold on a state-wide or regional basis; not only was this inefficient, but it had proved costly to film producers.
		In 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky company, and Paramount.
		Eventually Zukor shed most of his early partners, the Frohman brothers, Hodkinson and Goldfish/Goldwyn were out by 1917 while Lasky hung on until 1932, when, blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the depression years, he too was tossed out.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paramount_Pictures (3340 words)

	Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
		The respondents Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation have conspired and confederated together and from time to time with other persons unduly to hinder competition in the production, distribution and exhibition of motion picture films in interstate and foreign commerce and to control, dominate, monopolize or attempt to monopolize the motion-picture industry.
		Said three corporations, to wit: Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., Inc., Famous Players Film Co. and Bosworth, Inc., were engaged in the production and distribution of a certain class of motion-picture films of high literary and dramatic quality and merit, known to the trade as feature pictures, as distinguished from short subjects.
		All subsequent acts of respondents Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, as set forth in these findings were in pursuance and furtherance of said unlawful conspiracy as found in the fifth paragraph of these findings.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/9_ftc_3.htm (4596 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Jesse L. Lasky (1880-1958) was born in San Francisco and raised in San Jose, California, and graduated from Santa Clara High School, also in California.
		Lasky's appearances in a vaudeville act led to work as a producer and manager in vaudeville.
		Among the miscellaneous financial records are profit-and-loss statements for the Lasky Rolfe Company in 1906 and for the Jesse L. Lasky Company in 1907-1908.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/lasky_97.html (647 words)

	Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
		Goldfish marries Blanche Lasky and soon talks her vaudeville partner/brother Jesse L. Lasky, into entering the motion picture business.
		Goldfish and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company produce The Squaw Man, hiring Cecil B. DeMille to direct his first movie, which becomes the first feature-length film to come out of an orange grove called Hollywood.
		Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company merges with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players to form the new production company, Famous Players-Lasky.
	www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=1592 (1085 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky: Hollywood Renegade
		The son of a shoe salesman, Lasky was born in San Francisco in 1880.
		Jesse Lasky, as vice-president in charge of production, was one of the most important executive producers in Hollywood during the silent era.
		Jesse L. Lasky Sr., and Mary Pickford at an award ceremony.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/jesse-lasky.htm (358 words)

	Jesse Lasky Biography / Biography of Jesse Lasky Biography Biography
		The most powerful man in Hollywood during the heyday of the silent film, Jesse Lasky (1880-1958) was a pioneering movie mogul who co-founded Paramount Studios.
		A studio executive known for being prolific, Lasky was credited with producing more than 350 motion pictures between 1921 and 1930.
		Lasky was one of the men responsible for putting Hollywood on the map.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jesse-lasky/index.html (221 words)

	Pat Silver-Lasky, writing tutor at Castle of Park in Scotland
		Pat Silver-Lasky wrote as a team with late husband, Jesse L Lasky* Jnr.
		She has produced, written, directed and acted in TV drama, appeared in feature films, directed for the theatre and has contributed articles and short stories to various British and Spanish magazines.
		Jesse Lasky* Snr, produced the first full-length motion picture in Hollywood, The Squaw Man. Jesse Jnr wrote over 50 films, including The Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah.
	www.castleofpark.net /writeprofile/writeprofile_Pat.htm (160 words)

	Baring the Heart of Hollywood
		Now, it may seem strange to the reader that with more than half the theaters of the country in the hands of independent owners it should be possible for one producer or group of producers to control the situation.
		Lasky says, "but a few hundred theaters," located in these "key" cities, can control all the theaters in contiguous territories.
		Jesse L. Lasky, also a Jew, had been a theatrical producer with but indifferent success before he tackled motion pictures.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/26_bar_2.htm (2596 words)

	Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation - New York
		She was soon known as "America's Sweetheart." In 1916 Famous Players merged with Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company to form Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
		(Lasky's partners were Samuel Goldfish [later Goldwyn] and Cecil B. DeMille.) After several more name changes, mergers, management shuffles, and a bankruptcy, the newly reorganized Paramount Pictures, Inc. emerged in 1935.
		The three respondents —Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Adolph Zukor, and Jesse L. Lasky— were given 60 days to comply with the findings.
	www.scripophily.net /parfamlascor1.html (881 words)

	Independents Defect from the Studios
		Samuel Goldwyn, formerly head of the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, testified that after the formation of that company in 1917, great difficulty was experienced by the company in getting its pictures shown in important cities, due to control of theatres by the Paramount-Famous Players interests and the franchises of the Associated First National.
		Goldwyn said he entered the motion picture business in 1923 [sic 1913] when, in partnership with Jesse L. Lasky, he formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
		Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Sam Goldfish (Goldwyn), Cecil B. DeMille, and Al Kaufman.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/ftc-case_goldwyn.htm (533 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		Stage producer and early film executive Jesse Lasky also formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in partnership with his brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Goldwyn) and Cecil B. DeMille.
		The "Lasky Barn" was located in an orange grove on Selma Avenue and Vine Street.
		When Zukor merged his studio with Jesse Lasky - the combined company was renamed Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and it migrated to Hollywood, where it opened a studio in Hollywood on Sunset Boulevard.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro4.html (2573 words)

	★ Books by Jesse L Lasky
		Jesse L Parrot - Pine Straw and Other Leaves - 1112640819
		Jesse Stuart Robert Penn Warren - Head O w-Hollow - 0813101425
		jesse l lasky jese laski lascy laskz esse jsse jess jessel llasky asky lsky laky lasy laskfind books out of print
	www.booksearchbyisbn.com /459779_jesse-l-lasky_0491011725whateverhappnedtohollywoodfindbooksoutofprint.html (75 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		Famous Players merged with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1916 to form Famous Players-Lasky, which acquired a controlling interest in Paramount Pictures.
		Zukor was president of Paramount until 1935, when the company was reorganized; he remained a figurehead (chairman of the board emeritus) until his death.
		Of particular importance are letters and telegrams from Jesse L. Lasky (who always refers to his partner as Zukor) detailing production at the West Coast studios, lengthy correspondence from D. Griffith concerning his productions at Paramount in the 1920s, and considerable correspondence from Will H. Hays.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/zukor_196.html (288 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky in TutorGig Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jesse L. Lasky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6433 Hollywood Blvd.
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		Toberman, who had acquired "The Outpost" acreage from General Otis, sold his choice piece of property to Jesse L. Lasky for $157,000.
		The property he sold to Jesse Lasky prevented any access to Franklin Avenue, which was essential to permit the subdivision of Outpost Estates.
		Toberman re-purchased those desperately-needed ten and a half acres of "Tract 4820" (what is today a part of Franklin Avenue, Outpost Drive and El Cerrito Place) in April of 1924 from Jesse L. Laskey for the staggering sum of $275,000.
	www.outpostestates.com /OurHistory.html (1712 words)

	RISMedia - Residential Real Estate's Largest Independent News & Information Service - Immediate access to industry ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cecil collaborated with his brother William on many plays and while doing so he met Jesse L. Lasky with whom he would have a lifelong relationship.
		After seeing The Great Train Robbery in 1913, DeMille and Lasky were excited about motion pictures and immediately decided to form the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play company.
		He left Lasky for awhile and even did three films for MGM, but he returned to Paramount (which Lasky has become) where he reigned for many years.
	www.rismedia.com /index.php/article/articleview/7376/1/1 (566 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jesse L. Lasky Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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		For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Jesse L. Lasky has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6433 Hollywood Blvd. Lasky Drive in Beverly Hills was named in his honor.
	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Jesse_L._Lasky (508 words)

	Modern Screenwriting: Style Over Substance
		You were assigned a story, almost always.) Second, when Jesse L. Lasky of Fox studios purchased the script from Sturges, he agreed to pay him a percentage of the gross, something that was unheard of at the time.
		Lasky’s acceptance of the terms isn’t surprising when you consider that he believed it to be "the most perfect script" he had ever seen.
		Fourth, and perhaps most impressively, at a time when screenplays were worked on by upwards of a dozen different writers, Lasky ordered that no one touch Sturges’ screenplay.
	www.screenwritersutopia.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=2645 (1513 words)

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		Even the Lasky studio, where it is reported some of the stars think they are too good to speak to each other, was well represented, Mary Miles Minter arriving at 12 o'clock in high spirits and a tall blue limousine...
		She was charged with speeding and operating a car without a license in each case and deposited bail to the amount of $40.
		"It has been understood for some time that this picture would terminate her services." Later it was stated to Jesse L. Lasky that Miss Minter expected to return to the stage and that she is completing negotiations with a theatrical corporation in New York City with that end in view.
	www.public.asu.edu /~bruce/Taylor76.txt (10120 words)

	Lasky Jesse L Longstreet Stephen - new and used books
		Lasky Jesse L Longstreet Stephen - new and used books
		Hollywood, California 1941 LASKY, Jesse L. Typed Letter Signed, To author and artist Stephen Longstreet.
		LASKY, Jesse L. LONGSTREET, Stephen - Typed Letter Signed To author and artist Stephen Longstreet.
	www.isbn.pl /A-lasky-jesse-l-longstreet-stephen (90 words)

	Walter Wanger: film producer
		Looking about for a position that offered possibilities for advancement, Wanger met Jesse L. Lasky, vice president of Famous Players-Lasky Corp. (Paramount Pictures) who recalled his success in the theatre several years before and gave him three play scripts to read.
		The Charles Frohman theatrical interests were under Lasky's control and he hoped one of the three plays Wanger was to read might score on Broadway.
		While these ventures were enjoying unusual success Jesse L. Lasky visited England, and re-engaged Wanger (at a considerably increased salary) to return to New York as Paramount's general manager, a post which he held from 1923 to 1931.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/walter-wanger_intro.htm (1890 words)

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