Jesse L Lasky
Jesse Louis Lasky
American
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company | 1913 | 1916 | |
| Famous Players-Lasky Corp | 1916 |
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- Son: Jesse L Lasky Jr
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company | 1913 | 1916 | |
| Famous Players-Lasky Corp | 1916 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1913/07/00 | With money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, later known as Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L Lasky creates the Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Company with himself as President, Goldfish as General Manager and Cecil B DeMille as Director-General. | Work | Longacre Theatre, NYC | New York City | |||
| 1914/05/08 | Utah theatre owner, W W Hodkinson with Jesse Lasky, Adolph Zukor, Hobart Bosworth and others, merge 11 film rental bureaus to create the first nation wide distributor of feature films, Paramount Pictures. | Work | American Lightning - The Birth Of Hollywood | ||||
| 1956/12/27 | Jesse L Lasky Feature Play Co founders, dedicate the Lasky-DeMille Barn as "Hollywood's First Major Film Company Studio". Designate as California State Historic Landmark No 554, the building represents the birth of the Hollywood motion picture industry. | Dignitary | Lasky-DeMille Barn, LA | Los Angeles |
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