Originally posted in 2009. Jesse Lasky (born this day in 1880) is best known these days for being one of the founders of Paramount Pictures (you see his name in the titles of those early silents “Famous Players-Lasky”). But he climbed to his exalted position all the way up the show business ladder, never skipping […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:19AM on September 13, 2013