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70 minutes [1] Country. United States. Language. Silent (English intertitles) The Ace of Cads is a 1926 American silent romantic drama film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Luther Reed and starred Adolphe Menjou and Alice Joyce. [2] The film is an adaptation of a Michael Arlen story of ...
5 days ago · Step into this time machine and enjoy ten minutes with writer Jesse Lasky Jr., talking about DeMille, from the BBC World Service in 1981. Some lovely, disarming photographs taken on the Ten Commandments set by Yul Brynner. Mostly actors smoking and waiting around for the next take.
4 days ago · He became Hollywood's leading independent producer. Born as Schmuel Gelbfisz, he moved initially to England and then to America. There, he convinced the theatrical producer Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. deMille to go into film production and their company became the nucleus of the studio Paramount Pictures.
3 days ago · Born Francis Goldwasser in Poland in 1876, Goldwyn immigrated to the United States in 1896 and began his career in the glove business. However, his true passion lay in film, and in 1913, he co-founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, which later became Paramount Pictures.
3 days ago · While still at Henley's, he read in a trade paper that Famous Players–Lasky, the production arm of Paramount Pictures, was opening a studio in London. [48] They were planning to film The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli, so he produced some drawings for the title cards and sent his work to the studio. [49]
1 day ago · In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel Goldwyn formed Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures). DeMille produced The Squaw Man in a barn one block from present-day Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, and more box-office successes soon followed.
5 days ago · In a recent sermon, Oregon Pastor Jesse Lusko shared an inspiring account of talking to actor Joaquin Phoenix about Jesus. On Sunday (Oct. 5), Lusko described the encounter with his father’s favorite actor—the day before his father’s funeral several months ago.
