Benjamin "BB" Kahane (November 30, 1891 – September 18, 1960) was an American film producer.
Career
After graduating from the Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1912, Kahane practiced several years as a lawyer. He entered the motion picture industry in 1919. He first worked as a consultant in legal matters and was promoted to general counsel, secretary and treasurer and member of the Orpheum Circuit, Inc.
When the Orpheum Circuit amalgamated with Keith-Albee in November 1928, he became secretary and treasurer of Radio-Keith-Orpheum. In April 1932 he became vice-president of RKO, president of RKO-Studios, Inc., and RKO Pathé Pictures Inc., in active charge of RKO Studios. He served first as executive film producer, for the film A Woman Rebels, 1936) with Katharine Hepburn.
He resigned from RKO in August 1936, and joined Columbia as vice-president in 1938. He produced Charles Vidor's The Lady in Question (1940), the first joint film of Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford.
"Benjamin B. Kahane" in: William R. Denslow, foreword by Harry S. Truman: 10,000 Famous Freemasons Volume III, K - P, published by Macoy Publishing Inc., Richmond, Virginia, Publishing, 1957–2004, p. 1
