In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.

The new company, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, grew quickly, with Lasky and his partners Goldwyn and DeMille running the production side, Hiram Abrams in charge of distribution, and Zukor making great plans.

After seven films he sold his company to Jesse Lasky, who was a partner of the founder of Paramount Pictures.

Already involved with the creation of more than 100 motion picture shorts, Reid was signed by producer Jesse L. Lasky and would star in another sixty plus films for Lasky's Famous Players film company, later Paramount Pictures.

Lasky then found work as a producer at one of the big studios until 1945 when he formed his own production company.

In 1916, the company merged with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company to form Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, which later became Paramount Pictures.

The first version was a silent film released in 1916 by Jesse L. Lasky ’ s Famous Players-Lasky company, was directed by George Melford and starred Wallace Reid and Mae Murray.

Michael Lasky re-purchased the assets of the company, including the trademark.

During this time he hired American intellectual and former U. S. Army combat historian Melvin J. Lasky.

From there Melford went on to direct another 30 films for Kalem Studios until 1915, when he was hired by Jesse L. Lasky to direct feature-length films for Lasky's Feature Play Company.

O ' Brien and his wife developed Emilio and Guloso ( AKA: Valley of the Mist ), about a Mexican boy and his pet bull who save their town from a dinosaur called " Lagarto Grande ", which was optioned by producer Jesse Lasky, with O ' Brien and Harryhausen on board to do special effects, before falling through.

Clark, slipping into madness realizing that all his efforts have been for nothing, buys a realistic-looking BB gun pistol and demands a park security guard Russ Lasky ( John Candy ) to take them through the park at gunpoint ; Ellen and kids follow him, attempting to placate their father.

Jesse Lasky then partnered with Mary Pickford to produce films but within a few years she dissolved their business relationship.

In the period between 1912 and 1915, their " Protective Amusement Company " stood as one of the five most important film production companies in the U. S. All of the five had ties to theatrical entrepreneurs, and all were hoping to leverage their theater chains: Famous Players Film Company, the World Film Company, the Jesse L. Lasky Company, and the Triangle Film Corporation.

While initially the agreement seemed like a good deal, it wasn't long before Zukor and Lasky realized that they could make much higher revenues if they could integrate the production and distribution of their films.

Cecil B. DeMille was the first who wanted to hire him, telling his partner, Jesse Lasky, " The boy is a genius.

Mehta's first marriage was to Canadian soprano Carmen Lasky in 1958.

In the Guardians of Ga ' Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky, Spoorn, the first lieutenant to Skench, the evil Ablah General, is a Western Screech.

With the merger, Zukor became president of both Paramount and Famous Players-Lasky, with Goldfish being named chairman of the board of Famous Players-Lasky, and Jesse Lasky first vice-president.

In 1916, the first Universal Oak Ranch became known as the Lasky Ranch.

In December of that year, Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased the barn and studio facilities for $ 250. 00 a month establishing the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company and began production of The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), the first feature film to be produced in the Hollywood area.

Giants of the industry first stayed at the hotel, such as Jesse Lasky, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Harry Warner and Irving Thalberg.

Sturges offered the script to Lasky for $ 62, 475, but Lassky instead structured a deal in which Sturges got $ 17, 500 upon signing, 3 % of the first $ 500, 000 in receipts, 5 % of the next $ 500, 000, and 7 % of all receipts over $ 1, 000, 000.

Under its first general manager, Phil Lasky, KPIX gained an early reputation for news coverage, being noted for originating national CBS coverage of the Japanese Peace Conference of 1951 ( the event which " officially " brought an end to World War II, similar to the function that the Treaty of Versailles served for World War I ), held in San Francisco ( for which Lasky was commended by then-CBS News president Sig Mickelson ), as well as local news coverage of the 1953 crash of an Australian airliner while on approach to San Francisco International Airport, and a powder explosion a few weeks afterward at an explosives plant in suburban Hercules.

Her first feature The Cruise of the Make-Believes garnered the seventeen year old starlet much public acclaim and Lasky quickly sent Lee on an arduous publicity campaign.

Margaret hopes to become a permanent employee as an assistant to Mr. Lasky ( Bob Balaban ) but her dreams are thwarted when he suddenly dies.

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

Directed by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille and produced by DeMille and Jesse L. Lasky, the screenplay was adapted by DeMille and Apfel from the 1905 stage play, The Squaw Man, written by Edwin Milton Royle.

Indeed, Jesse Lasky Jr., the co-writer on The Ten Commandments, described how the director would customarily spread out prints of Alma-Tadema paintings to indicate to his set designers the look he wanted to achieve.

Goudal then worked in the Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky co-production of The Spaniard and her growing fame brought her to the attention of producer / director Cecil B. DeMille.

That same year, another aspiring producer, Jesse L. Lasky, opened his Lasky Feature show Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, later known as Samuel Goldwyn.

The studio evolved into Famous Players-Lasky with co-producer Jesse L. Lasky and then Paramount Pictures, of which he served as president until 1936 when he was elevated to chairman of the board.

Meanwhile, Lasky and Laurel's dog, upon leaving the ship, finally encounter " Mr. Tideman " face-to-face, who is revealed to be a much older Commander Owens, along with his wife, Laurel, whom the dog immediately recognizes, despite her advanced age.

The final encounter ends with Owens telling Lasky: " We have a lot to talk about.

He had several affairs during his marriage, including one in 1927 with his wife's friend Lia Lasky.

Mitch Lasky, senior vice president of Activision, stated in an interview with GameSpot that the character was meant " to reflect Tony's signature style – an intense mix of acrobatics and hard-core technical skating ".

In 1913, Goldfish along with his brother-in-law Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, and Arthur Friend formed a partnership, The Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, to produce feature length motion pictures.

Looking for more movies to distribute, Paramount signed a contract with the Lasky Company on June 1, 1914 to supply 36 films per year.

At her career peak in the early 1920s, Murray, along with such other notable Hollywood personalities as Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, Jesse L. Lasky, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Donald Crisp, Conrad Nagel and Irving Thalberg was a member of the board of trustees at the Motion Picture & Television Fund-A charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries without resources.

It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig.

In 1913, Cecil B. DeMille, in association with Jesse Lasky, leased a barn with studio facilities on the southeast corner of Selma and Vine Streets from the Burns and Revier Studio and Laboratory, which had been established there.

Sturges refused to do a treatment, and instead delivered a finished shooting script, which Lasky said was " the most perfect script I'd ever seen ", with nothing that needed to be trimmed.

Returning to London in 1970, he edited Encounter magazine, with Melvin J. Lasky, for two years.

He has worked for BBC Radio, the New Statesman as literary editor, and from 1973 to 1985 as editor of Encounter with Melvin J. Lasky.