FrameThrower · Actors · Janet Leigh
Janet Leigh
4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1980
Born 6 July 1927 · Merced, California, USA · died 3 October 2004
Janet Leigh was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Her career spanned over five decades. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at 18 by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Leigh appeared in radio programs before her first formal foray into acting, making her film debut in the drama The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947). With MGM, she appeared in many films which spanned a wide variety of genres, which include the crime-drama Act of Violence (1948), the drama Little Women (1949), the comedy Angels in the Outfield (1951), the romance Scaramouche (1952) and the western drama The Naked Spur (1953).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 261 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1958–1980
- Golden Globe Awards1960
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 261 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Janet takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 69% of their frames are night, 53% low key — the look of the work Janet 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 261 frames from Janet Leigh's 4 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.