FrameThrower · Actors · Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe
7 films · 340 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1950–1961
Born 1 June 1926 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 5 August 1962
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 7 films · 340 frames · top-billed in 6 · 1950–1961
- Golden Globe Awards1960
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy1959
- Henrietta Award1961
- Targa d'Oro1958
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 340 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Marilyn takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 7 films we hold, 55% of their frames are day, 40% natural — the look of the work Marilyn takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 340 frames from Marilyn Monroe's 7 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.