Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.
- 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.
- Date:
- 1930s?
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Collection:
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Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
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![Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw and G.H. Bishop in television or radio studio, [Los Angeles?], 1933-1938](https://iiif.library.ucla.edu/iiif/2/ark%3A%2F21198%2Fzz002ckwt7/full/!200,200/0/default.jpg)