Jesse L. Lasky — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Jesse L. Lasky is first vice-president of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation and undoubtedly one of the best informed motion picture executives in the world.

In active charge of the production phase of the enterprise, he combines a rare insight with a faculty for something approaching prevision, and long ago saw the potentialities of the screen.

It was about ten years ago that he with Cecil B. DeMille organized the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company at Hollywood, Cal., in the very spot where now stands the great west coast Paramount (Lasky) Studio.

Later came the affiliation with Famous Players and the development to its present gigantic proportions of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, of which Adolph Zukor is president and Jesse L. Lasky, as stated, first vice-president. Through unflagging energy Mr. Lasky has built up a producing organization that comprises the finest directors, greatest writers, most talented stars and other players ever assembled in one company.

Jesse L. Lasky is comparatively a young man. He experienced all the vicissitudes of the theatrical producing business ere embarking upon the motion picture sea. Since becoming identified with the newer medium he has placed his mark of originality and vision upon the pictures emanating from the Paramount studios.

Mr. Lasky was born in San Francisco and after experiences in Alaska and elsewhere went to New York, where he engaged in theatrical work, produced many vaudeville musical tabloids and after numerous ventures finally entered the motion picture field, as stated.

Where the original Lasky studio occupied a couple of small buildings, it now covers practically two square blocks at Vine street and Selma avenue, Hollywood. Mr. Lasky is married and has three children. His home is one of the handsomest in the Southland.

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The home of the Jesse Laskys, somewhere between Hollywood and Beverly Hills.

Mr. Lasky introducing Pola Negri to the studio newsboy.

Portrait by Witzel • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)