Jesse Lasky’s nickname could have been goldfinger, for he was born with the golden touch. That was not exactly what his parents, Ike and Sarah Lasky had in mind about striking gold in the “New Country” when newly arrived in New York City because of the Russian Pogroms, they set out for the Yukon to pan for gold, but it worked for him. For, like his parents, Jesse was always the opportunist, panning for gold. First, he opened his Lasky Feature Play Company with money borrowed from his brother-in-law, Samuel Goldfish, (he changed it to Goldwyn years later and founded…