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

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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:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Film producer and co-founder of Paramount Pictures, Jesse L. Lasky, with older woman.

Eddie Cantor and Samuel Goldwyn, defendants in a copyright lawsuit, Los Angeles, April 29, 1936

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Entertainer Eddie Cantor (left) and producer Samuel Goldwyn, defendants (along with Jack Robbins, music publisher) in a copyright suit brought by James J. Donnelly, a Hollywood composer. Donnelly is claiming $100,000 in damages because he wasn't given credit for the use of the song "When My Ship Comes In" in a recent picture.Note: image is mislabeled in the system as 9358, it should be 9258
Date:
April 29, 1936
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Eddie Cantor and Samuel Goldwyn, defendants in a copyright lawsuit, Los Angeles, April 29, 1936

Vittorio Mussolini arrives at Union Air Terminal from Rome and is greeted by his host, producer Hal Roach, and the press, Los Angeles, September 25, 1937

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Vittorio Mussolini (at microphone right), Italian film critic, producer and son of dictator Benito Mussolini, is greeted by the press upon his arrival at Union Air Terminal. Mussolini is spending about two weeks in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter to study motion-picture manufacture in Culver City and visit friends in Hollywood and Beverly Hills. His host for the visit is film producer Hal Roach (at microphone left). Police expected a protest or demonstration from anti-Fascists at the arrival, but none occurred
Date:
September 25, 1937
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Vittorio Mussolini arrives at Union Air Terminal from Rome and is greeted by his host, producer Hal Roach, and the press, Los Angeles, September 25, 1937

Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935

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West testifies at grand jury hearings to determine Todd’s cause of death. Todd was found in the garage of film director West, her business partner and lover, dead from carbon monoxide poisoning. Nance was Los Angeles Country Coroner 1921-1945. Todd's death was eventually ruled an accident.
Date:
December 18, 1935
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Coroner Frank Nance listens to testimony from Roland West at the grand jury hearings into death of actress Thelma Todd, December 18, 1935