Biography
Natalie M. Kalmus (née Dunfee, also documented as Dunphy; April 7, 1878 – November 15, 1965) was the executive head of the Technicolor art department and credited as the director or "color consultant" of all Technicolor films produced from 1934 to 1949.Once an art student and model, she married American scientist and engineer Herbert T. Kalmus in 1902 and later co-founded with him the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation, serving for two decades as the company's chief on-site representative at studios that rented Technicolor's cameras for filming their color productions. Natalie Kalmus, who is often credited as a co-developer of the Technicolor process itself, was a member of the production team that shot the first Technicolor footage in 1917. Kalmus held strong views about the balanced use of color in film composition and often clashed with directors, cinematographers, and studio set designers who in her view sought to overuse dramatic colors simply as random accents in scenes, too often, gratuitously or for theatrical effect.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 44
Director 1
Writer 1
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Streets of Laredo (1949)
Red Canyon (1949)
3 Godfathers (1948)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Whispering Smith (1948)
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
Unconquered (1947)
Song of the South (1946)
Margie (1946)
The Virginian (1946)
The Spanish Main (1945)
Thrill of a Romance (1945)
Sudan (1945)
Belle of the Yukon (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
Pin Up Girl (1944)
Cover Girl (1944)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
White Savage (1943)
Arabian Nights (1942)
The Black Swan (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Gay Parisian (1942)
Belle Starr (1941)
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
The Bill of Rights (1939)
Penny's Picnic (1938)
Starlit Days at the Lido (1935)
Memories and Melodies (1935)
La Cucaracha (1934)
The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)
Mrs. Mortimer Jones Prepares "Dinner for Eight" (1934)
Doctor X (1932)
Cleopatra (1928)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1878-04-07
Deathday1965-11-15 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceHoulton, United States of America
RelationshipsHerbert Kalmus (1902-01-01 - 1922-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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