Struss

The picture of Kasia Struss was questioned after several complainers said the model looked too skinny.

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Another new hire was a photographer named Karl Struss, who had been part of the circle around Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz and their salon, 291 Fifth Avenue.

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Julia Faye told Struss that DeMille admired him because he was always a gentleman yet once he made up his mind he stuck to it.

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Although Laughton could be ferociously temperamental, he was docile with DeMille; as Karl Struss, the cameraman on the picture, said, “Nobody exhibited any tendencies with DeMille, ever.”

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In later years, Colbert usually told reporters that she was wearing a white bathing suit, but we have the testimony of cameraman Karl Struss to the contrary, as well as of our own eyes.

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In a couple of months, DeMille signed Karl Struss to a personal contract.

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Cameraman Karl Struss was getting a lot of calls at home demanding that he go out on strike, but he was resolute in planning to make the picture.

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A quarter century before that, I had begun collecting string for this book by interviewing Karl Struss and John Carradine, and I continued talking to veterans of DeMille pictures whenever the opportunity presented itself, long before I actually embarked on the project.

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“Everybody was off the stage except the cameraman and DeMille,” remembered Struss.

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Wyckoff would light the set and handle the camera shooting the master shot, while Struss and another cameraman handled closer shots.

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