FrameThrower · Actors · Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–1952
Born 22 October 1917 · Tokyo, Japan · died 15 December 2013
Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, known professionally as Joan Fontaine, was an English-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". She was born in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement. Her father was a British patent attorney with a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and divorced soon afterward. Mrs.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1948–1952
- Academy Award for Best Actress1942
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joan 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, 58% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work Joan 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 195 frames from Joan Fontaine'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.