Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.

Title: Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.
Date Created: 1930s?
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Famous and influential motion picture producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, photographed with an older woman, possibly his mother Sarah.Jesse Louis Lasky was born in San Francisco, California in 1880. He began a career as a vaudeville performer in his 20s, which led him to business in Hollywood. In 1913, he founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, with his sister's husband Samuel Goldwyn and close friend Cecil B. DeMille. This company later joined with Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company to release films as Paramount Pictures.
Caption: Text from original nitrate negative: Thorpe, Willard G.; Lasky, Jesse

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: People
Media
Motion picture producers & directors--American--California--Los Angeles
Entertainment
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: LOADED_uclamss_1387_03757-00
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025fqdb
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