FrameThrower · Actors · Mariangela Melato
Mariangela Melato
2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1980
Born 18 September 1941 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy · died 11 January 2013
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Mariangela Melato was an Italian cinema and theatre actress.
Born in Milan, the daughter of a traffic policeman and a seamstress, Melato from a young age studied painting at the Academy of Brera, drawing posters and working as a window dresser at La Rinascente to pay for her acting lessons with Esperia Sperani. A striking, blonde actress, she began her stage career in 1960, entering the stage company of Fantasio Piccoli and debuting as an actress in the play Binario cieco.From 1963 to 1965 she worked with Dario Fo in Settimo: ruba un po' meno and La colpa è sempre del diavolo, then in 1967 she worked with Luchino Visconti in The Nun of Monza.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1976–1980
- David di Donatello for Best Actress
- David di Donatello Award for Lifetime Achievement
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Taormina Film Fest2003
- Taormina Film Fest1989
- Grolla d'oro for Best New Actress1972
- Flaiano Prizes for Theatre
- Hystrio Award
- Ubu Prize
- Premio Eleonora Duse
- Cinearti La chioma di Berenice Prize
- Ciak d'oro - best supporting actress
How their films are shot
Measured across 115 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mariangela 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, 41% of their frames are interior, 45% low key — the look of the work Mariangela takes.
Time of day
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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 115 frames from Mariangela Melato'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.