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Producer
Jesse L. Lasky
- Born September 13, 1880 in San Francisco, California, USA
- Died January 13, 1958
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.
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This team would go on to produce The Squaw Man, considered to be first feature film produced in Hollywood. Lasky would go on to produce many films in early Hollywood, including The Call of the North, Beau Geste, and Wings.
Known for
Wings1927
Sergeant York1941
The Docks of New York1928
The Last Command1928
Underworld1927
It1927
The Cheat1915
Peter Pan1924
Filmography
- 1951The Great CarusoFilmAssociate Producer
- 1946Without ReservationsFilmProducer
- 1945Rhapsody in BlueFilmProducer
- 1944The Adventures of Mark TwainFilmProducer
- 1941Sergeant YorkFilmProducer
- 1937Hitting a New HighFilmProducer
- 1937Music for MadameFilmProducer
- 1936One Rainy AfternoonFilmProducer
- 1936The Gay DesperadoFilmProducer
- 1935The Gay DeceptionFilmProducer
- 1935Redheads on ParadeFilmProducer
- 1935Here's to RomanceFilmProducer
- 1934Grand CanaryFilmProducer
- 1934The White ParadeFilmProducer
- 1934Springtime for HenryFilmProducer
- 1933The Power and the GloryFilmProducer
- 1933Berkeley SquareFilmProducer
- 1933I Am Suzanne!FilmProducer
- 1933The Warrior's HusbandFilmProducer
- 1931The House That Shadows BuiltFilmProducer
- 1930With Byrd at the South PoleFilmProducer
- 1930The Benson Murder CaseFilmPresenter
- 1930Dangerous ParadiseFilmExecutive Producer
- 1930Only the BraveFilmPresenter
- 1929ApplauseFilmProducer
- 1929The Greene Murder CaseFilmPresenter
- 1929Pointed HeelsFilmPresenter
- 1929Dangerous CurvesFilmExecutive Producer, Presenter
- 1929The Battle of ParisFilmPresenter
- 1929Innocents of ParisFilmProducer
- 1929All AmericansFilmProducer
- 1928The Docks of New YorkFilmPresenter
- 1928The Last CommandFilmProducer
- 1928The Wedding MarchFilmExecutive Producer
- 1928The Legion of the CondemnedFilmProducer
- 1928The Shopworn AngelFilmProducer
- 1928The First KissFilmProducer
- 1928The Fifty-Fifty GirlFilmProducer
- 1928Manhattan CocktailFilmProducer
- 1928Something Always HappensFilmProducer
- 1928CreacionesFilmProducer
- 1927WingsFilmPresenter
- 1927UnderworldFilmPresenter
- 1927ItFilmExecutive Producer
- 1927Chang: A Drama of the WildernessFilmPresenter
- 1927Children of DivorceFilmPresenter
- 1927Get Your ManFilmProducer
- 1927NevadaFilmProducer
- 1927Now We're in the AirFilmProducer
- 1927Open RangeFilmPresenter
- 1927Arizona BoundFilmPresenter
- 1927Swim Girl, SwimFilmProducer
- 1927A Kiss in a TaxiFilmPresenter
- 1927A Gentleman of ParisFilmPresenter
- 1927The Whirlwind of YouthFilmPresenter
- 1927We're All GamblersFilmExecutive Producer
- 1927Honeymoon HateFilmProducer
- 1926MoanaFilmExecutive Producer
- 1926Beau GesteFilmProducer
- 1926The Sorrows of SatanFilmPresenter
- 1926You'd Be SurprisedFilmPresenter
- 1926Forlorn RiverFilmPresenter
- 1926PadlockedFilmPresenter
- 1926Miss Brewster's MillionsFilmPresenter
- 1926The Ace of CadsFilmProducer
- 1926The Great GatsbyFilmProducer
- 1926Everybody's ActingFilmPresenter
- 1926The Lady of the HaremFilmPresenter
- 1926Let's Get MarriedFilmPresenter
- 1926The Song and Dance ManFilmProducer
- 1926The Campus FlirtFilmProducer
- 1926Fascinating YouthFilmProducer
- 1926Say It AgainFilmPresenter
- 1926Wet PaintFilmProducer
- 1925Grass: A Nation's Battle for LifeFilmPresenter
- 1925Paths to ParadiseFilmProducer
- 1925Too Many KissesFilmProducer
- 1925Locked DoorsFilmPresenter
- 1925The Manicure GirlFilmExecutive Producer
- 1925The Little French GirlFilmProducer