FrameThrower · Actors · Jessica Harper
Jessica Harper
4 films · 252 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1974–2022
Born 3 October 1949 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Jessica Randolph Harper is an American actress and singer. Harper began her feature film career with a starring role in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974), and subsequently featured in films including Love and Death (1975), Inserts (1975), and My Favorite Year (1982). She is best known for her portrayal of Suzy Bannion, the protagonist of Dario Argento's cult classic Suspiria (1977), and appeared in a supporting role in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake.
Her other films include Stardust Memories (1980), Shock Treatment (1981) (the followup to The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which she replaced Susan Sarandon as Janet Weiss), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Blue Iguana (1988), Safe…
How their films are shot
Measured across 252 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jessica 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, 52% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Jessica 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 252 frames from Jessica Harper'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.