Their studio was an old barn on Vine Street in Hollywood. They knew nothing much about movies, but they learned as they went along. DeMille, all in their early thirties, formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company in 1913, with Lasky as president, Goldfish as general manager and DeMille as director-general. In 1910 Blanche married an enterprising glove salesman called Samuel Goldfish, who urged Lasky to go into the motion picture industry. He and his sister Blanche started managing other entertainers and got involved in the theatre business in New York. Lasky.īorn in San Francisco in 1880, Lasky began his career as a not very successful cornet player and years afterwards he would call his autobiography I Blow My Own Horn. Many other fly-by-night outfits followed, but the first major studio was headed by Jesse L. Short films and parts of films were made on the edges of what was then the fairly small Californian city of Los Angeles from the late 1890s and the first film studio was set up behind a Chinese laundry, perhaps in 1907.
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