Jesse Lasky Jr.

Screenwriter

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Also Known As
Jesse L Lasky Jr., Capt. Jesse Lasky Jr., Jesse L. Lasky Jr., 1st Lieut. Jesse Lasky Jr.
Birth Place
New York City, New York, USA
Born
September 19, 1908
Died
April 11, 1988
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

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Author and screenwriter, often in collaboration with wife Pat Silver, who began his film career working on a number of C.B. DeMille vehicles, beginning in 1939. Son of production executive Jesse L. Lasky....

Filmography

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Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944)
Assistant to Hively, Photographer unit #2 at Arawe
Forbidden Sun (1989)
Screenplay
Crime and Passion (1976)
Screenwriter
Land Raiders (1970)
Story
Seven Women From Hell (1961)
Screenwriter
Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
Screenwriter

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Hot Blood (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Suspicion Of Being Gypsies
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Hot Blood (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So, She Dances

Family & Companions

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Pat Silver
Wife
Tv writer. Co-wrote a number of episodes with husband, including "The Saint" and "The Avengers".

Bibliography

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"Love Scene"
Jessie Lasky Jr and Pat Silver
"Curtain of Life"
Jesse Lasky Jr
"No Angel in Heaven"
Jessie Lasky Jr
"Whatever Happened to Hollywood?"
Jessie Lasky Jr

Biography

Author and screenwriter, often in collaboration with wife Pat Silver, who began his film career working on a number of C.B. DeMille vehicles, beginning in 1939. Son of production executive Jesse L. Lasky.

Filmography

 

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944)
Assistant to Hively, Photographer unit #2 at Arawe

Writer (Feature Film)

Forbidden Sun (1989)
Screenplay
Crime and Passion (1976)
Screenwriter
Land Raiders (1970)
Story
Seven Women From Hell (1961)
Screenwriter
Pirates of Tortuga (1961)
Screenwriter
The Wizard of Baghdad (1960)
Screenwriter
John Paul Jones (1959)
Screenwriter
The Buccaneer (1959)
Screenwriter
Hot Blood (1956)
Screenwriter
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Wrt for the Screenplay by
Pearl of the South Pacific (1955)
Screenwriter
The Iron Glove (1954)
Screenwriter
Hell and High Water (1954)
Screenwriter
Mission over Korea (1953)
Screenwriter
The Silver Whip (1953)
Screenwriter
Salome (1953)
Story
The Brigand (1952)
Screenwriter
Venture of Faith (1951)
Screenwriter
Mask of the Avenger (1951)
Screenwriter
Lorna Doone (1951)
Screenwriter
Never Trust a Gambler (1951)
Screenwriter
Samson and Delilah (1950)
Screenwriter
The Sickle or the Cross (1949)
Screenwriter
Unconquered (1947)
Screenwriter
Appointment in Tokyo (1945)
Screenwriter
Attack! The Battle for New Britain (1944)
Wrt of commentation
The Omaha Trail (1942)
Screenwriter
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Screenwriter
The Omaha Trail (1942)
Based on an original story by
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Story
The Singing Hill (1941)
Original Story
Back in the Saddle (1941)
Original Screenplay
Land of Liberty (1941)
Narr wrt by
Union Pacific (1939)
Screenwriter
Secret Agent (1936)
Additional Dialogue
Redheads on Parade (1935)
Contr to Screenplay const
Redhead (1934)
Additional Dialogue
Coming Out Party (1934)
Screenwriter
The White Parade (1934)
Adaptation

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

Unconquered (1947)
Prod staff

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Hot Blood (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Suspicion Of Being Gypsies Los Angeles gypsy Marco (Luther Adler) and gang at the police station where they spring guests Papa (Joseph Calleia), betrothed Annie (Jane Russell) and Xano (Russell's brother Jamie), then groom Sephano/Steve (Cornel Wilde) with his concurrent girlfriend (Helen Westcott), early in Nicholas Ray's Hot Blood, 1956.
Hot Blood (1956) -- (Movie Clip) So, She Dances At her arranged wedding to L-A gypsy Stefan (Cornel Wilde), in-from-Chicago Annie (Jane Russell) has, of her own accord, abandoned their agreed-upon plan to call off the ceremony, instead beginning a traditional dance, with a whip, a wild scene from Nicholas Ray's Hot Blood, 1956.
John Paul Jones (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Your Audacity Amazes Me Denied a command in the Continental Navy, but seconded to the shrewd Commodore Hopkins (Thomas Gomez), Robert Stack (title character) offers a brainy plan and bold attack in the Bahamas, a fictional event in a roughly accurate context, in producer Samuel Bronston's John Paul Jones, 1959.
John Paul Jones (1959) -- (Movie Clip) We Are Not Disappointed Now released from duties to seek naval prizes for his victorious ship's crew, Captain Jones (Robert Stack) meets Empress Catherine of Russia (Bette Davis), who tests his virtue with dancing girls, in John Farrow's John Paul Jones, 1959.
John Paul Jones (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I Give You Liberty New on the pre-Revolutionary Virginia social scene, youthful captain Jones (Robert Stack), escorted by eminent Patrick Henry (Macdonald Carey), tangles with a bellicose Brit (Peter Cushing) and meets Dorothea (Erin O'Brien), early in John Paul Jones, 1959.
Mask Of The Avenger (1951) -- (Movie Clip) It Will Go No Further Anthony Quinn, military governor in a 19th century Italian state, honest so far as we know, reveals himself, with Count Dimorna (Wilton Graff), then with aide Colardi (Arnold Moss) before the count's son, leading man John Derek, is introduced, in Columbia's Mask Of The Avenger, 1951.
Mask Of The Avenger (1951) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Traitor's Son Italy, 1851, loyal Maria (Jody Lawrance) visits the bent governor (Anthony Quinn), who is gently holding shrewd young captain Renato (John Derek), whose nobleman father he framed and killed, and who is faking his own injury, in Columbia's quasi-historical costumer Mask Of The Avenger, 1951.
Reap The Wild Wind -- (Movie Clip) You'll Blow Away Following C.B. DeMille's opening shiwpreck in the Florida Keys, salvage business-girl Loxie (Paulette Goddard) is introduced with an on-camera wardrobe change, cousin Drusilla (Susan Hayward), mother (Elisabeth Risdon) and maid (Louise Beavers) in her wake, in Reap The Wild Wind, 1942.
Reap The Wild Wind -- (Movie Clip) No More Bilge Talk Stuart (John Wayne), injured captain of a wrecked freighter, with salvage profiteer Cutler (Raymond Massey), friend Philpott (Lynne Overman), and rescuer Loxie (Paulette Goddard), the maid (Louise Beavers) with a stowaway monkey, in C.B. DeMille's Reap The Wild Wind, 1942.
Back In The Saddle (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I'm An Old Cowhand Taffy (Jacqueline Wells) is sending a telegram when Gene (Autry) bumps into her little sister Patsy (Mary Lee), leading to their offering of Johnny Mercer's I'm An Old Cowhand, and his apology for an earlier misunderstanding, in Back In The Saddle, 1941.

Trailer

Buccaneer, The (1958) - (Original Trailer) French pirate Jean Lafitte (Yul Brynner) tries to redeem his name helping the U.S. in the War of 1812 in Anthony Quinn's The Buccaneer (1958).
Omaha Trail, The - (Original Trailer) The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war in The Omaha Trail (1942) starring James Craig.
Steel Against The Sky - (Original Trailer) Future husband and wife Craig Stevens and Alexis Smith first met on the bridge-building drama Steel Against The Sky (1941).
Salome - (Original Trailer) Rita Hayworth plays the dancing daughter of Herod in Salome (1953) with Charles Laughton as the lecherous father.

Family

Jesse L Lasky
Father
Production executive, producer.

Companions

Pat Silver
Wife
Tv writer. Co-wrote a number of episodes with husband, including "The Saint" and "The Avengers".

Bibliography

"Love Scene"
Jessie Lasky Jr and Pat Silver
"Curtain of Life"
Jesse Lasky Jr
"No Angel in Heaven"
Jessie Lasky Jr
"Whatever Happened to Hollywood?"
Jessie Lasky Jr

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