FrameThrower · Actors · Leila Hyams
Leila Hyams
2 films · 128 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1932–1932
Born 1 May 1905 · New York City, New York, USA · died 4 December 1977
Leila Hyams was an American model, vaudeville and film actress, who came from a show business family. Her relatively short film career began in the 1920s during the era of silent films and ended in 1936. Although her career only lasted around twelve years, the blonde blue-eyed ingenue appeared in more than 50 film roles and remained a press favorite, with numerous magazine covers.
How their films are shot
Measured across 128 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Leila 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, 72% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Leila 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 128 frames from Leila Hyams'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.