FrameThrower · Actors · Molly Ringwald
Molly Ringwald
4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2023
Born 18 February 1968 · Roseville, California, USA
Molly Kathleen Ringwald is an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. She was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–80) after a casting director saw her playing an orphan in a stage production of the musical Annie. She and several other members of the original Facts of Life cast were let go when the show was reworked by the network. She subsequently made her motion-picture debut as Miranda in the independent film Tempest (1982), which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year.
Ringwald is primarily known for her collaborations with filmmaker John Hughes.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1987–2023
- Theatre World Award1987
How their films are shot
Measured across 235 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Molly takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 49% of their frames are day, 48% natural — the look of the work Molly 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 235 frames from Molly Ringwald's 4 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.