FrameThrower · Actors · Gloria Grahame
Gloria Grahame
3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1952
Born 28 November 1923 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 5 October 1981
Gloria Grahame was an American actress.
Grahame began her acting career in theatre, and in 1944 she made her first film for MGM. Despite a featured role in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), MGM did not believe she had the potential for major success, and sold her contract to RKO Studios. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Crossfire (1947), and she won this award for her work in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). She achieved her highest profile with Sudden Fear (1952), Human Desire (1953),The Big Heat (1953), and Oklahoma!…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1952
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1953
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 186 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Gloria 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, 70% of their frames are night, 58% low key — the look of the work Gloria takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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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 186 frames from Gloria Grahame'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.