1920s - The Paramount Years
From 1916 to 1932 Lasky ruled Paramount with Adolph Zukor, and called them “the best years of my life.”
Jesse Lasky Jr.'s birthday celebration, circa 1924, attended by Paramount juveniles and classmates. Center front, Jesse Jr.; front row: Jesse Lasky Sr., behind him, juvenile star Buddy Rogers; third row, Bessie in profile; to her left at end of row, writer Johnny Monk Saunders; fourth row, Randy Rogers, Lasky Sr.'s secretary, directly behind Buddy; second from left, juvenile lead Phillips Holmes.
![Paramount bigwigs at a convention at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1926. [L-R] Jesse Lasky; star Gloria Swanson's third husband Marquis de la Falaise; Gloria Swanson; studio president Adolph Zukor; and VP in charge of sales Sidney Kent](https://jesse-l-lasky.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/1926groupswanson-1.jpg "1926 Paramount bigwigs")
Paramount bigwigs at a convention at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1926.
[L-R] Jesse Lasky; star Gloria Swanson's third husband Marquis de la Falaise; Gloria Swanson; studio president Adolph Zukor; and VP in charge of sales Sidney Kent
[L-R] Jesse Lasky; star Gloria Swanson's third husband Marquis de la Falaise; Gloria Swanson; studio president Adolph Zukor; and VP in charge of sales Sidney Kent
1926 Famous Players: (left to right) Jesse Lasky, William S. Hart, Mary Pickford, Cecil B. DeMille
French film mogul Edouard Corniglion-Molinier, unidentified, Jesse Lasky,
Jesse Lasky Jr., and silent director Rex Ingram; in Nice, France, in 1928
Jesse Lasky Jr., and silent director Rex Ingram; in Nice, France, in 1928
Late 1920s: the Lasky beach house in Santa Monica
Late 1920s: Jesse and Bessie Lasky