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Alexis Smith

Alexis Smith

2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19541993

Born 8 June 1921 · Penticton, Canada · died 9 June 1993

Margaret Alexis Smith was a Canadian-born American actress and pin-up girl. She appeared in several major Hollywood movies in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 126 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19541993

  • Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical1972
  • Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical

How their films are shot

Measured across 126 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alexis takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 54% low key — the look of the work Alexis takes.

Time of day

Night61%
Day32%

Lighting

Low key54%
Natural31%
High key8%
Chiaroscuro6%

Shot size

Medium61%
Wide19%
Closeup11%
Establishing6%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral68%
Tense20%
Lonely4%
Ominous4%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 126 frames from Alexis Smith's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.