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The Famous Players–Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company – originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays – and the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.
The Famous Players Film Company was a film company founded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor in partnership with the Frohman brothers, powerful New York City theatre owners and producers.
Jul 22, 2015 · The first of these was Famous Players Film Company, founded by Hungarian-Jew Adolph Zukor. The second was the Lasky Feature Play Company, started by another Jew named Jesse Lasky who was a native of San Francisco.
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company created on July 19, 1916 from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company — originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays — and Jesse L. Lasky's Feature Play Company.
Jesse Louis Lasky (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was an American pioneer motion picture producer [1] who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
In what would become a tortuously complex series of intercorporate restructuring from 1916 through 1927, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was not only a production company, it temporarily also became the official distribution arm for what were previously Paramount lines in circa August 1919, and the Paramount name was reduced to nothing more ...
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Famous Players-Lasky Productions. American director Hugh Ford arrived in England on 16th April 1920 to begin the studio's production schedule with The Great Day, followed by The Call of Youth. Unfortunately, both films received disappointing reviews in the British press.
