Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jesse Lasky, c. 1932.

Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jesse Lasky, c. 1932.


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Caption: Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jesse Lasky, c. 1932.

About Jesse Louis Lasky

Miscellaneous Crew, Producer
Born: September 13, 1880
Star sign: Virgo
Known for: Wings (1927), The Cocoanuts (1929), Without Reservations (1946), Sergeant York (1941)
Source: IMDB

Lasky, one of the first pioneers of the Hollywood film industry and its first genuine 'mogul', was not only a consummate showman and entrepreneur, but a jack-of-all-trades. Born in San Francisco in September 1880, the son of a shoe salesman, he attended high school in San Jose and held down his first job at seventeen as a reporter for the San ...


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