FrameThrower · Actors · Lana Turner
Lana Turner
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1946–1959
Born 8 February 1921 · Wallace, Idaho, USA · died 29 June 1995
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Lana Turner was an American actress. Discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in They Won't Forget (1937). She played featured roles, often as the ingenue, in such films as Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). During the early 1940s she established herself as a leading actress in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1946–1959
- Donostia Award1995
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award1975
- Targa d'Oro
- 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 Lana 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, 57% of their frames are night, 47% low key — the look of the work Lana takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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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 Lana Turner'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.