FrameThrower · Actors · Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy McGuire
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1945–1946
Born 14 June 1916 · Omaha, Nebraska, USA · died 13 September 2001
Dorothy Hackett McGuire was an American actress from the 1940s to 1990. Some of her movies include: Gentleman's Agreement (nominated for the Best Actress Academy Award for this film), The Enchanted Cottage, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and Old Yeller (as the mother). She passed away in 2001 at the age of 85.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1945–1946
- 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 Dorothy 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, 63% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Dorothy 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 Dorothy McGuire'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.