Jesse Louis Lasky born on September 13 in San Francisco CA, the son of shoe-store proprietor Isaac Lasky and his wife Sarah.

Family, including sister Blanche, moves to San Jose CA

Family moves back to San Francisco

Playing cornet in San Francisco
Cloverdale Citrus Fair, February 18

to Nome, Alaska, on the S.S. Zealandia

In Nome
Celebrates July 4, 1900 in Nome
To Hawaii on S.S. Zealandia

Begins playing cornet duets with sister Blanche
To Boston with Blanche and mother

Vaudeville engagements Boston to New York
New York, engaged for 40-week season tour with Hermann the Great
Road Show: Kansas, San Jose, San Francisco, Montreal, Washington DC

Becomes manager of Hermann the Great
Finds replacement act [Rolfes] for Laskys
To Europe to get bookings for Hermann

New York to Europe, producing vaudeville acts, sending out 40 acts between 1906-1910
Opened Orpheum Theatre in Yonkers December 1907

[summer?] Vacation in Adirondaks, meets Bessie Ginzberg
December, marries Bessie Ginzberg in Boston

-September 19, son Jesse Leonard Lasky, Jr. born in New York
-Sister Blanche marries glove salesman Sam Goldfish [later Goldwyn] [W]
-With partner Henry Harris produces Folies Bergère on Broadway, New York
-Meets Cecil B. DeMille's mother, a play broker, to engage son William to write operetta California
-Become partners with Cecil B. DeMille in California

Folies Bergère closes

-Decide to make movies with DeMille
-In NYC form Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. with JLL president, Goldfish general manager, DeMille director General, and actor Dustin Farnum as star, to make The Squaw Man
-Oscar Apfel hired as director
-Cecil B. DeMille and Apfel go west to film The Squaw Man, rents a barn on Selma and Vine in Hollywood
-Filming begins on The Squaw Man December 29, 1913
-Harry Reichenbach hired to handle publicity

-February 17 - First showing The Squaw Man at Longacre Theatre NY
-March - Lasky to Hollywood
-July - Call of the North
-Moves family out to California
-William DeMille moves to Hollywood to organize first story department
-Wilfred Buckland hired as first art director
-Lasky's build first home on Hillside & LaBrea
-"21 films the first year"
-Meets Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players
-Paramount Pictures formed as first film distribution company

-"36 releases in the second year"
-Blanche Sweet, Wallace Reid becomes big Lasky stars
-Samuel Goldfish and Blanche Lasky divorce

Three-way merge of Lasky-Famous Players-Paramount becomes Famous Players-Lasky
Lasky and Zukor buy out Sam Goldfish
Goldfish joins with Edgar Selwyn to form Goldwyn Pictures Corp.

Lasky befriends Enrico Caruso during filming
"production schedule for that year called for 104 features"

Old Wives For New

Acquisition of Charles Frohman Co. with backlog of unproduced plays
Walter Wanger hired to run Frohman Co., (later to be General Manager of Paramount Pictures)
Blanche Lasky marries Hector Turnbull, screenwriter
Lasky brings Elinor Glyn to Hollywood
-C.B. DeMille takes Gloria Swanson from Mack Sennett comedies and makes her a glamorous star for Famous Players-Lasky with Male and Female, For Better, for Worse, Don't Change Your Husband

-Lasky and Gilbert Miller families travel to Europe together
-Lasky celebrates 40th birthday in Budapest
-Lasky negotiates with European writers, including Somerset Maugham, for literary properties
-Famous Players Lasky opens Astoria Studios, Long Island NY

Lasky signs Rudolph Valentino for The Shiek

-After dispute, Valentino parts with Famous Players-Lasky
-Scandals involving Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, William Desmond Taylor lead to industry self-regulations with Will Hays as arbiter, the first President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA)

-had made 360 features since The Squaw Man

-To Paris to make Madame Sans-Gene with Gloria Swanson, where she meets and marries the Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudray.
-Epic film, The Covered Wagon, released
-Cecil B. DeMille leaves Famous Players-Lasky
-First technicolor film Wanderer of the Wasteland released

-[circa] Lasky organizes Paramount School at Astoria Studios to develop new talent

-Graduating exercises for Paramount School (March 2)
-Fascinating Youth tailored for contract winners, including Charles (Buddy) Rogers and Thelma Todd
-Barn moved to new 26-acre Marathon Studios lot on Marathon Street
-Paramount Theater opens in New York City (November)

-Famous Players-Lasky reorganized under Paramount Pictures Corp
-Lasky production Wings wins first Academy Award for Best Picture
-First successful sound picture, The Jazz Singer, opens
-15-year-old Jesse Jr. publishes book of poems, Songs From the Heart of a Boy

-Lasky hires Erich von Stroheim (The Wedding March, The Honeymoon)
-Top Paramount star Gloria Swanson leaves to join forces with Erich von Stroheim to make Queen Kelly, a fiasco that was never released.
-Paramount's first 100% talkie, Interference, is produced.

-Laskys in Paris where Jesse discovers Maurice Chevalier and invites him to Hollywood.
-Stock market crash
-Paramount Famous-Lasky becomes Paramount-Publix

-Trades Paramount stock plus Santa Monica beach house with Harry Warner for $250,000

-Blanche Lasky dies

-April 30, left office at Paramount for last time
-Astoria Studios closed down

-Becomes independent producer at Fox, makes 18 pictures in three years

Lasky and Mary Pickford form Pickford-Lasky Productions, Inc.

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Produces Broadway flop Quiet, Please!

Sergeant York premieres, wins Best Picture Oscar

The Adventures of Mark Twain released

June 26: Rhapsody in Blue premieres

Without Reservations produced with cousin Mervyn LeRoy directing

The Miracle of the Bells produced

-The Great Caruso premieres
-September 12: receives first Milestone Award from Screen Producers Guild

-December 27: The Lasky-DeMille studio-barn becomes a California historic landmark

-Begins work on The Big Brass Band

-June 12: Jesse L. Lasky is the subject of This is Your Life

-January 13: Jesse Louis Lasky dies in Beverly Hills, CA