- He attended the University of Miami, produced a local radio show and worked as a floor manager for a local sports television show.
- He was the founder and head of Kaleidoscope Films, a movie advertising company since 1968, which helped to create the modern day movie trailers played before movies.
- One of his Kaleidoscope Films employees, Karen Levitt, came up with the famous tagline "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water" for Jaws 2 (1978).
- In 1994, Kuehn was honored by the Cannes Film Festival for a Lifetime of Excellence in movie marketing. On the tribute reel dedicated to his career, more than 1000 trailers were credited to Kuehn, including re-releases for Casablanca (1942) and the silent epic Napoleon (1927).
- He was introduced to movie trailer production while working for a local ad agency during his student years at the University of Miami. After college, he ended up in New York City and found work as a writer for National Screen Service, the leading provider of movie trailers at the time. Two years later, he became head of the audiovisual advertising, promotion and publicity department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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