FrameThrower · Actors · Mary Astor
Mary Astor
3 films · 181 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1941–1947
Born 3 May 1906 · Quincy, Illinois, USA · died 25 September 1987
Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 181 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1941–1947
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1942
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame1960
How their films are shot
Measured across 181 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Mary 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, 61% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Mary takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 181 frames from Mary Astor'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.