Jesse Lasky

Standard Name: Lasky, Jesse

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Occupation Elinor Glyn
EG entered the Hollywood film industry, accepting a contract with Jesse Lasky of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount) to study film-writing and to compose film-scripts.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937.
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Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994.
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Publishing Elinor Glyn
EG signed a contract with Jesse Lasky of Famous-Players-Lasky (later Paramount) to write film scripts; she would earn 10,000 dollars US for each script written, and if the films did well her contract could be...
Reception E. M. Hull
It became even more popular when Jesse Lasky made a silent film of it, starring Rudolph Valentino , in 1921.
Valentino, born Rodolpho Pietro Filiberto Raffaele Guglielmi , was little known when the film first...

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