FrameThrower · Actors · Marpessa Dawn
Marpessa Dawn
2 films · 92 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1959–1974
Born 3 January 1934 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA · died 25 August 2008
Marpessa Dawn, also known as Gypsy Marpessa Dawn Menor was an American-born French actress, singer, and dancer. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of African-American and Filipino heritage, she is best-remembered for her role as "Eurydice" in the film Black Orpheus. She and her fellow lead from that film, Brazilian actor Breno Mello, died just 42 days apart in 2008, both from heart attacks.
How their films are shot
Measured across 92 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Marpessa 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, 57% of their frames are day, 62% natural — the look of the work Marpessa 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 92 frames from Marpessa Dawn'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.