FrameThrower · Actors · Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck
3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1941–1982
Born 16 July 1907 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · died 20 January 1990
Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. A film and television star, she was known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence and was a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra. After a short stint as a stage actress, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television. Stanwyck was nominated for the Academy Award four times, and won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1941–1982
- Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award1986
- Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1983
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series1966
- AFI Life Achievement Award1987
- Academy Honorary Award1982
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barbara takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 61% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Barbara takes.
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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 188 frames from Barbara Stanwyck's 3 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.