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Jesse L. Lasky
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American film producer, born in 1880. A founding figure of the American motion picture industry, he co-founded the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913, which produced Cecil B. DeMille's early films including The Squaw Man (1914), Carmen (1915), and The Cheat (1915). The company merged with Famous Players Film Company in 1916 to form Famous Players-Lasky, the predecessor to Paramount Pictures. Lasky remained a top producer through the 1940s. He died in 1957.
