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Ellen Greene

Ellen Greene

3 films · 266 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19861994

Born 22 February 1951 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Ellen Greene is an American singer and actress. Greene has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actor and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musical theatre, as well as having performed in many films (notably in Little Shop of Horrors) and television programs. She starred as Vivian Charles on the ABC series Pushing Daisies.

Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Greene, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

How their films are shot

Measured across 266 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Ellen 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, 44% of their frames are night — the look of the work Ellen takes.

Time of day

Night44%
Day39%
Interior16%

Lighting

Natural34%
High key32%
Low key31%

Shot size

Medium48%
Closeup23%
Wide18%
Fullbody8%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle10%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral65%
Tense16%
Ominous6%
Chaotic4%

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 266 frames from Ellen Greene'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.