FrameThrower · Actors · Jane Curtin
Jane Curtin
2 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2000–2018
Born 6 September 1947 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jane Therese Curtin is an American actress and comedienne. She is commonly referred to as Queen of the Deadpan. First coming to prominence as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s sitcom Kate & Allie portraying the role of Allison "Allie" Lowell. Curtin later starred in the hit series 3rd Rock from the Sun portraying the role of Dr. Mary Albright. She recreated her SNL character for the film The Coneheads and more recently appeared in The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 137 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2000–2018
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series1985
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series1984
How their films are shot
Measured across 137 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jane 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, 40% of their frames are day, 52% natural — the look of the work Jane 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 137 frames from Jane Curtin'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.