Kay-Bee Pictures

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.

Poster for The Coward

Ad for The Redskin Duel, a re-release of The Death Mask (1914)

Filmography

• 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

1. "Motion Picture News". Motion Picture News Incorporated. December 21, 1912 – via Google Books.
2. Tasker, Yvonne (August 19, 2004). The Action and Adventure Cinema. Routledge. ISBN 9781134564941 – via Google Books.
3. "To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette". Amer. Company, Limited. December 21, 1913 – via Google Books.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.