Natalie Kalmus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American media executive
Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1878
Place of Birth: Houlton, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 15-Nov-1965
Profession: film technician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Natalie Kalmus
- Natalie Kalmus (née Dunfee or Dunphy) (April 7, 1882, Houlton, Maine – November 15, 1965, Boston, Massachusetts), was credited as the "color supervisor" of virtually all Technicolor feature films made from 1934 to 1949.
- She was married to Technicolor founder Herbert T.
- Kalmus from July 23, 1902 to June 22, 1922, and they continued to live together until 1944.Originally a catalog model, then an art student, Kalmus made sure that costumes, sets and lighting were adjusted for the color film process's sensitivities.
- Her services were contractually part of Technicolor's services.
- In her work to make sure filming rendered colors properly on screen, she was accused of going to the other extreme of mildness.
- She wrote: "A super-abundance of color is unnatural, and has a most unpleasant effect not only upon the eye itself, but upon the mind as well." She recommended "the judicious use of neutrals" as a "foil for color" in order to lend "power and interest to the touches of color in a scene." Producer David O.
- Selznick complained in a memo during the making of Gone with the Wind: Director Vincente Minnelli recalled of making Meet Me in St.
- Louis, "My juxtaposition of color had been highly praised on the stage, but I couldn't do anything right in Mrs.
- Kalmus's eyes." Director Allan Dwan was more blunt: "Natalie Kalmus was a bitch."Her association with Technicolor ended in 1948 when she named the corporation as a co-defendant in an alimony suit against Herbert Kalmus, when it appeared he was about to remarry.
- She sued unsuccessfully for separate maintenance and half his assets of Technicolor, Inc.
- In 1950 she licensed her name for a line of designer television cabinets made by a California manufacturer.
- Her personal papers are now in the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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