FrameThrower · Actors · Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood
3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1961
Born 20 July 1938 · San Francisco, California, USA · died 29 November 1981
Natalie Wood was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles.
Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 186 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1961
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama1980
- Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress1957
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 186 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Natalie 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, 54% of their frames are night, 51% low key — the look of the work Natalie 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 186 frames from Natalie Wood'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.