FrameThrower · Actors · Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone
3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–1992
Born 29 January 1924 · Chicago, Illinois, USA · died 19 January 2018
Dorothy Malone was an American actress. Her film career began in 1943, and, in her early years, she played small roles, mainly in B-movies. After a decade, she began to acquire a more glamorous image, particularly after her role in Written on the Wind (1956), for which she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Her career reached its peak by the beginning of the 1960s, and she achieved later success with her television role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place from (1964–1968). Less active in her later years, Malone's last screen appearance was in Basic Instinct in 1992.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 183 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1955–1992
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1957
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 183 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dorothy 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, 52% of their frames are night, 42% low key — the look of the work Dorothy takes.
Time of day
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Mood
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 183 frames from Dorothy Malone'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.