FrameThrower · Actors · Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner
6 films · 390 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1946–1982
Born 24 December 1922 · Grabtown, North Carolina, USA · died 25 January 1990
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Considered one of the most iconic stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, she was ranked as the 25th greatest female screen legend by the American Film Institute. Initially cast in minor roles, her breakthrough came with the classic film noir The Killers (1946), which established her as a leading lady.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 390 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1946–1982
- Silver Shell for Best Actress1964
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 390 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ava takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 6 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Ava takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 390 frames from Ava Gardner's 6 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.