Volume III: Biographies

KRAUS, Billie

Studio employee (1915-1916)

Thanhouser Career Synopsis: Billie Kraus was an assistant scenic artist with the Thanhouser studio in Jacksonville, Florida in 1916.

Biographical Notes: Billie Kraus was one of a group of technicians who formerly worked with the Kalem studio in Jacksonville and who were at liberty in the autumn of 1915, when William McNulty, also formerly of Kalem, talked with Edwin Thanhouser and negotiated an arrangement whereby the former Kalemites would work for the Thanhouser studio in Jacksonville. The initial group of Thanhouser players arrived from New Rochelle on December 20, 1915, and by January 1916 production was in full swing at the new Jacksonville facility, at which time the former Kalem employees were at work.

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