Lasky, Betty

Betty Lasky
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Name	Lasky, Betty Gender: F
Birthname	Bessie Lasky
born on	11 October 1922 at 23:50 (= 11:50 PM )
Place	Los Angeles, California, 34n03, 118w15
Timezone	PST h8w (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	18°12' 28°54 Asc. 01°16'

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Biography

American author and film historian, known for her book RKO: The Biggest Little Major of Them All (1984) and the "Roots of Hollywood" chapter in Hollywood Archive: The Hidden History of Hollywood in the Golden Age (2000).

She was the daughter of pioneering producer Jesse L. Lasky, a key founder of Paramount Pictures and Bessie Mona Ginsberg Lasky, a painter known for her depictions of the California missions. Her brother, Jesse L. Lasky, Jr., was the screenwriter of over 50 films, including a long partnership with the DeMilles.

She grew up in and around Hollywood, piquing her interest in film history. Her writing career began as a screen story analyst for RKO Pictures, the Selznick Company and the Hamilburg Agency, as well as a position editing and writing for The Players Showcase Magazine.

In the 1970s, she worked with attorney Terrys T. Olender to preserve film artifacts saved by the City of Los Angeles in the Lincoln Heights Jail.

Lasky died of pneumonia on the afternoon of 7 January 2017 at her home in Los Angeles at age 94.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• child->parent relationship with Lasky, Jesse L. (born 13 September 1880)

Events

• Death by Disease 7 January 2017 (Pneumonia, age 94)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate ("Bessie Lasky").

Categories

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Pneumonia (Terminal)

• Family : Childhood : Family noted (Father)

• Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 94)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian (Film)

• Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script

• Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor

• Vocation : Writers : Textbook/ Non-fiction