Benjamin Kaye

Benjamin Mark Kaye (1884 – March 25, 1970) was an American lawyer known for co-founding the international law firm Kaye Scholer. He was also a playwright who wrote and translated several Broadway plays.

Biography Kaye was born in 1884 in New York City. He graduated from Columbia College in 1904 and Columbia Law School in 1907. After being admitted to the bar in 1907, Kaye received legal training at the office of the noted trial lawyer Max Steuer. The law firm merged with Arnold & Porter in 2016.

Interested in theater since his youth, Kaye was also a prolific playwright who helped organize the Theatre Guild and served as the general counsel of the American National Theater and Academy. His writing credits included She Didn't Say No! (1926), starring Florence Moore and was adapted into the 1941 film She Couldn't Say No, The Curtain Rises (1933), starring Jean Arthur, and On Stage (1935), starring Osgood Perkins. and was credited by The New York Times for bringing the duo together.

In 1960, he received the Kelcey Allen Award for his contribution to American theater. He died on March 25, 1970, at his home in the Rockefeller Apartments.