Production · b. 1880 · San Francisco, California, USA

Jesse L. Lasky

Biography

Jesse Louis Lasky was an American film producer and one of the key founding members of what would become Paramount Pictures. Beginning his career as a producer of Broadway musicals, including 1911's Hello, Paris and A La Broadway, he would later be introduced to filmmaker Cecille B. DeMille by fellow Broadway producer and DeMille's mother, Beatrice deMille. This meeting would lead to the founding of the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, a join venture between Lasky and DeMille as well as Samuel Goldwyn (then Samuel Goldfish) and Oscar Apfel. This team would go on to produce The Squaw Man, c...

Other Credits
The Great Caruso Associate Producer 1951 Without Reservations Producer 1946 Rhapsody in Blue Producer 1945 The Adventures of Mark Twain Producer 1944 Sergeant York Producer 1941 Hitting a New High Producer 1937 Music for Madame Producer 1937 The Gay Desperado Producer 1936 One Rainy Afternoon Producer 1936 Here's to Romance Producer 1935 The Gay Deception Producer 1935 Redheads on Parade Producer 1935 The White Parade Producer 1934 Springtime for Henry Producer 1934 Grand Canary Producer 1934 I Am Suzanne! Producer 1933 The Power and the Glory Producer 1933 Berkeley Square Producer 1933 The Warrior's Husband Producer 1933 The Bottom of the World Producer 1930
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