FrameThrower · Actors · Coleen Gray
Coleen Gray
3 films · 179 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1947–1956
Born 23 October 1922 · Staplehurst, Nebraska, USA · died 3 August 2015
Coleen Gray was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. After several weeks there, she moved to L.A. and enrolled in a drama school. Her performances attracted a talent scout from 20th Century-Fox, with whom she signed a contract after a screen test.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 179 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Coleen 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, 51% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Coleen 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 179 frames from Coleen Gray'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.