Max Figman, born in Vienna, Austria, and Lolita Robertson born in San Francisco, were a husband and wife acting duo who appeared on Broadway and in silent films together. Max was also a director and w
Stage actor Max Figman
Lolita Robertson
Jesse L. Lasky
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Jesse Louis Lasky was an American pioneer motion picture producer who was a key founder of what was to become Paramount Pictures, and father of screenwriter Jesse L. Lasky Jr.
Max Figman and Lolita Robertson
…Lackaye and Robert Edeson. They made a few films with the short-lived Masterpiece Film Manufacturing Company. The couple sat in on the formation of The Lasky Company in 1914, later to be Paramount Pictures. In silent pictures, the husband and wife often appeared together. Max made his stage debut at 17 in A Scrap…
Lasky in 1915
Lasky standing outside "The Old Barn", where he and Cecil B. DeMille started a picture studio in 1913.