FrameThrower · Actors · Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1953
Born 8 March 1922 · Amarillo, Texas, USA · died 16 June 2008
Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s. Her roles usually featured her abilities as a dancer, and she was paired with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly; her films include Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), and Silk Stockings (1957). She stopped dancing in films in the late 1950s, but continued acting in film and television, and in 1992 made her Broadway debut.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1952–1953
- National Medal of Arts2006
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cyd 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, 44% of their frames are night, 60% high key — the look of the work Cyd 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 130 frames from Cyd Charisse'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.