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	Encyclopedia: Jesse Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 - January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer.
		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)

	Jesse L. Lasky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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 (additional info and facts about Hollywood Forever Cemetery) Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jesse_l._lasky.htm (339 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1916 their company merged with Adolph Zukor's studio to create the Famous Players-Lasky Company that built a large studio facility near Manhattan (in Astoria, New York), and that eventually became the majority shareholder of Paramount Pictures.
		Lasky then found work as a producer at one of the big studios until 1945 when he formed his own production company.
		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.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesse_Lasky (327 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)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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.
		Lasky invested the proceeds in an unsuccessful venture, the Folies-Bergere theater in New York.
	www.ampas.org /mhl/sc/lasky_97.html (647 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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)

	Jesse Louis Lasky -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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)

	MTV.com - Movies - Jesse Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		American production executive and producer Jesse Lasky was the founder of the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company which later merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, one of the major studios of the silent era.
		Lasky, a talented musician, then went to work as a bandleader in Hawaii.
		For an executive, Lasky was always well-liked and respected by his peers and employees.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/87320/bio.jhtml (336 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)

	Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
		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.
		Lasky, and Famous Players-Lasky Corporation caused said Realart Corporation to open and maintain branch offices or exchanges and selling organizations wholly separate and distinct from that of said Famous Players-Lasky Corporation.
	www.cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/9_ftc_3.htm (4596 words)

	Jesse Lasky Biography / Biography of Jesse Lasky 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 (220 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky
		Jesse L. Lasky, First Vice-President of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, was born in San Francisco and was among the first prospectors from the coast to reach the Alaskan gold fields at the time of the gold rush.
		In January, 1914 he formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., and up to the time that the organization was merged with the Famous Players Film Co., Mr.
		Lasky had presented to the public many film stars prominent among whom were Blanche Sweet, H. Warner, House Peters, lna Claire, Fannie Ward and Geraldine Farrar.
	silentladies.com /DLaskyJ.html (141 words)

	Jesse Ramsden -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse Helms was born on Oct. 18, 1921, in Monroe, N.C. He was an executive vice-president for the Capital Broadcasting Company from 1960 until 1972.
		In 1972 he became the first Republican to be elected to the Senate from North Carolina in the 20th century.
		Pioneer U.S. motion-picture producer Jesse Lasky coproduced the first full-length movie made in Hollywood, Calif., the silent movie The Squaw Man (1914).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9062618 (737 words)

	The Hollywood Antitrust Case, 1921
		The respondents, a formal announcement of the commission asserts, are given thirty days to answer the specific allegations in the complaint, after which the date of the trial of the charges will be set.
		It is charged that "prior to the incorporation of the Famous Players- Lasky Corporation in July, 1916, the three concerns mentioned released and distributed all of their pictures films through Paramount Pictures Corporation, New York, the only organization of the kind that had facilities for nationwide distribution."
		Lasky Feature and Play Company and the Famous Players Film Company for the leasing of films for first runs, there was free and open competition for the second and third runs or repeats."
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/ftc-case_1921.htm (875 words)

	Turner Classic Movies This Month Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The dedicated producer, Jesse Lasky, was adamant about bringing the man's life to the silver screen.
		With WWII approaching, Lasky made the case that York's story was more important than ever.
		Warner Brothers and Lasky had spent considerable time and money prying Cooper away from his commitments at Goldwyn (they succeeded only after swapping Cooper for Bette Davis, who would appear in Goldwyn's The Little Foxes, 1941).
	www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,31470\|31472\|21799,00.html (836 words)

	Photographs of Jesse L. Lasky & Associates (LOT 13258) - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and ...
		Photographs of Jesse L. Lasky and Associates (LOT 13258) include photographs gathered from many sources, including wire services, commercial photo studios, publicity photo distributors, and amateur photographers, and may be restricted by copyright.
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	www.loc.gov /rr/print/res/144_las.html (292 words)

	Film History Before 1920
		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.
		Zukor forced theatre owners to accept "block booking" (the rental of groups or blocks of films) in order to assure that all of the studio's films would be distributed.
	www.filmsite.org /pre20sintro4.html (2573 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Cheerful Film Men -- Jan. 07, 1924
		Jesse L. Lasky, First Vice President of the Famous Players-Lasky Co., looks forward to a year of resumed production, despite the recent closing of its Hollywood studios (TIME, Nov. 19).
		In 1924, 45 pictures will be made in Hollywood; 15 other film plays will be made at the Lasky studio on Long Island.
		Lasky emphatically denied rumors to the effect that motion picture producers contemplated moving their studios from Hollywood to the East.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,717377,00.html (382 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Samuel Goldwyn
		Once in America, Goldfish, as he was now called, obtained work at Louis Meyers and Son as a glovemaker and by age 18 was one of the top glove salesmen in the world and a partner in the Elite Glove Company.
		When the woman he was trying to court married Jesse Lasky instead, Goldfish was introduced to Lasky's sister, Blanche.
		Eventually he persuaded his brother-in-law to join him, and together they formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company with Goldfish managing sales for the company.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200466 (721 words)

	AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS: MARY PICKFORD - DOCUMENT MULTI-SIGNED 04/30/1936 CO-SIGNED BY:JESSE LASKY
		JESSE L. (1880-1958) formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913, persuaded by his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldwyn (then known as Sam Goldfish).
		In 1916, Famous Players merged with the Lasky Feature Play Company to form Famous Players-Lasky and after a few name changes, finally became Paramount Pictures.
		Jesse Lasky was forced to leave his job as head of production in 1932.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/6_2004/actors/265189-MARY-PICKFORD.htm (335 words)

	channel4.com/film - Jesse Lasky Jr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Aeneas MacKenzie Jesse Lasky Jr Jack Gariss Fredric M Frank
		Jesse Lasky Jr Alan Le May C Garner Sullivan
		Charles Bennett Ian Hay Jesse Lasky Jr Alma Reville
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/person.jsp?id=19553 (48 words)

	Jesse L. Lasky Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Jesse L. Lasky Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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	Jesse L. Lasky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Impresario who formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company with brother-in-law Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and Cecil B. De Mille in 1913.
		Following a series of mergers, first with Adolph Zukor's company in 1916, the consolidated outfit was rechristened Paramount and went on to became a major Hollywood studio.
		In 1932, Lasky was forced out of the organization he had helped to found and embarked on a moderately successful career as an independent producer with credits that included BERKELEY SQUARE, POWER AND THE GLORY and THE WORST WOMAN IN PARIS?
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/lasky_j.htm (171 words)

	Love Scene: The Story of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (Jesse Lasky)
		Some biographies get a bit dull in the details, but this book told the tale in very interesting tidbits from people who knew both actors.
		Lasky's details are superb regarding Vivien's manic depressive psychosis and lets readers get the feel for the disease by telling what Vivien did and said that showed the psychosis, rather than just saying she has manic depression/bipolar.
		Lasky does a very good depiction of bipolar in this book that leaves a reader without any doubt of its nature.
	www.truefresco.com /bookshop/us/product/0690014139.htm (328 words)

	Cecil B. DeMille @ Classic Movie Favorites - Silent Films Page 1 of 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This film was the first adaptation from a play and DeMille's first Lasky film.
		This film is also to be seen in the section entitled remakes.
		This film is also mentioned in the Innovation section.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /demille/silent1.html (320 words)

	LASKY STUDIO MUSEUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was originally located at the corner of Selma Avenue and Vine Street, and in 1927 was transferred to Paramount Studios.
		DeMille in making "The Squaw Man" were Samuel Goldwyn and Jesse Lasky, Sr.
		The Museum is now located on Highland Avenue across from the Hollywood Bowl entrance.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/historic/lasky_museum.html (113 words)

	The Autobiography of Geraldine Farrar: Such Sweet Compulsion
		But in New York, Belasco's son-in-law, Morris Gest, had no such painful idea of flamboyant ballyhoo when he approached me. With Jesse Lasky, a theatre man of taste who had attended the opera to hear me, he was intent upon legitimate work on the screen, if I could be interested.
		As previously noted, Morris Gest had engineered my affiliation with the Lasky Company, of which Jesse Lasky was President, Samuel Goldwyn (then Goldfish) Vice-President and Treasurer, with Cecil B. DeMille as Director and partner.
		Tellegen had been having a none too successful career in his screen activities, and Jesse Lasky had suggested that he take over a post as director.
	cinemaweb.com /silentfilm/bookshelf/8_such_4.htm (6509 words)

	Hollywood Time Line
		The formal incorporation of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company is completed under the laws of New York with a capital of $50,000.
		An agreement is signed by Cecil B. DeMille on behalf of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company with J.J. Burns of Burns and Revier Studio to lease the Stern barn and studio facilities at Selma and Vine Streets in Hollywood for $250 a month.
		The Stern barn/DeMille Lasky barn, was moved from Selma and Vine Streets in Hollywood to the back lot of the newly acquired United Studios on Melrose Avenue where the new Paramount Studios would be built.
	www.hollywoodheritage.org /museum/timeline.html (525 words)

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		Showman Jesse Lasky forms the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in partnership with his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish (later Goldwyn) and his friend Cecil B. DeMille.
		In 1916, the Lasky Co. merged with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company.
		In 1927, the company changed its name to Paramount Famous Lasky Corp., then to Paramount Publix Corp. in 1930.
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