Kay-Bee Pictures
Appearance
Kay-Bee Pictures, or Kessel and Baumann, was an American silent film studio, and part of the New York Motion Picture Company. The company's mottos included, "every picture a headliner" and "Kay-Bee stands for Kessel and Baumann and Kessel and Baumann stands for quality", referring to Adam Kessel and Charles Baumann.[1] It was party of the New York Motion Picture Company and was used after a settlement with rival Universal Pictures to end the film division named 101 Bison.[2] Anna Little was one of its stars.[3] Its executives included Thomas Ince.
Filmography
[edit]- The Paymaster's Son (1913)
- The Sergeant's Secret (1913)
- Banzai (1913)[4]
- Love's Sacrifice (1914)
- Mother of the Shadows (1914)
- The Death Mask (1914)
- The Geisha (1914)
- The Gangster and the Girl (1914)[4]
- The Golden Claw (1915)
- The Winged Idol (1915)
- The Coward (1915)
- The Famine (1915)
- The Beckoning Flame (1915)
- The Beggar of Cawpur (1916)[5]
- Shell 43 (1916)[6]
- Civilization's Child (1916)
- Somewhere in France (1916)
- The Raiders (1916)
- Hell's Hinges (1916)
- The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
- The Three Musketeers (1916)
- The Stepping Stone (1916)
- The Wolf Woman (1916)
- The Corner (1916)
- The Apostle of Vengeance (1916)
- The Pitch Hitter (1917)[7]
- The Weaker Sex (1917)
- The Clodhopper (1917)
- The Hater of Men (1917)
- The Bride of Hate (1917)
- The Millionaire Vagrant (1917)
- The Gunfighter (1917)
- Happiness (1917)
References
[edit]- ^ "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News Incorporated. December 21, 1912 – via Google Books.
- ^ Tasker, Yvonne (August 19, 2004). The Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781134564941 – via Google Books.
- ^ "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette". Amer. Company, Limited. December 21, 1913 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Rubens, Alma (2015-03-21). Rhodes, Gary D.; Webb, Alexander (eds.). Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography. McFarland. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4766-1667-4.
- ^ Woods, Jeannine (2011). Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ireland and India 1910-1962. Peter Lang. p. 211. ISBN 978-3-03911-974-5.
- ^ Golden, Eve (2013-04-12). John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-8131-4163-3.
- ^ Gronmaier, Danny (2022-12-05). The US Sports Film: A Genre of American Dream Time. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 250. ISBN 978-3-11-076039-2.