The Resume

(September 13, 1880-January 13, 1958)
Born in San Francisco, California
Birth name was Jesse Louis Lasky
Formed the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company (1913)
Founder of Paramount Pictures (1914), with Adolph Zukor and W.W. Hodgkinson
Produced 'The Sheik' (1921), 'Beyond the Rocks' (1922), 'Beau Geste' (1926), 'The Last Command' (1928), 'Innocents of Paris' (1929), 'Sergeant York' (1941), 'The Adventures of Mark Twain' (1944) and 'Rhapsody in Blue' (1945)

Why he might be annoying:

He was practically bald by the time he was thirty.
In his twenties, he lost his entire savings after joining the gold rush to Alaska and coming up empty-handed.
He lost $100,000 on a nightclub he opened in New York, which proved to be a financial fiasco.
His professional partnership with Mary Pickford was short-lived.
He was blamed for the near-collapse of Paramount in the Depression years, resulting in his being ousted from his leadership role in 1932.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was Cecil B. DeMille's brother-in-law.
He co-produced the first feature film in Hollywood, 'The Squaw Man' (1914).
He is widely credited with 'discovering' Mae West.
He launched the career of Maurice Chevalier, signing him to do his first two Hollywood films.
He scooped his competitors by signing Rudolph Valentino away from MGM for 'The Sheik,' a film that solidified his status as a cultural icon.
He was one of the 36 people who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1927).
He lost his estimated $20 million fortune during the Wall Street Crash.
He was almost completely forgotten at the time of his death, despite virtually inventing the role of the 'movie mogul.'

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• BoyWiththeGreenHair’s Profiles [Series 13]
• Coolest Jews in Hollywood
• Film Pioneers [Silent Era]
• I Am Vaudeville [A-L]
• I Attended Rudolph Valentino's Los Angeles Funeral [September 7, 1926]
• I Attended the Los Angeles Premiere of ‘Gone With the Wind’ [December 28, 1939]
• I Attended the Premiere of Disney’s ‘Snow White’ [1937]
• I Died in 1958 (Ranked: 77)
• I Died in Debt
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[J-L]
• I Lived in Beverly Hills
• I Probably Banged Mae West
• I'm Buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery [Calif]
• Look at Me, I'm Writing
• Movie Moguls
• Profiles 45501-45750 (Ranked: 45719)
• This is Your Life Honorees [L-Z]

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 12 Votes: 91.67% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 18 Votes: 11.11% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying