Word: kalmus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Becky Sharp (1935), but quit after losing a bitter California divorce suit against her husband when it came out that they had been secretly divorced since 1921, thus invalidating her claim to half his property, estimated at $3,000,000; of an intestinal obstruction; in Boston...
Died. Herbert Thomas Kalmus, 81, father of Technicolor, a lanky, secretive M.I.T. graduate who named his process for his alma mater, hit pay dirt with Becky Sharp in 1935, and ever after mined millions from his Technicolor, Inc., selling only his "services" (never cameras, which were guarded like crown jewels) until a 1950 consent decree forced him to be more accommodating; of a heart attack; in Bel Air, Calif...