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Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated
 
Type of Company Production company
Country of Origination United States of America
Years of Operation 1913-1917
Company Principals Jesse L. Lasky, president (1913-1917)
Samuel Goldfish (Samuel Goldwyn), general manager (1913-?)
Cecil B. DeMille, director general (1913-1917)
Arthur Friend, corporate lawyer (1913-?)
Company Offices unknown
Company Studios Selma and Vine Street (1913)

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, was established in 1913. Early feature film productions were distributed on State Rights basis. The company merged with Famous Players Film Company into the Famous Players-Lasky Company in 1917.

References: Birchard-DeMille p. 3; Robinson-Palace p. 117.

 
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