FrameThrower · Actors · Olga Baclanova
Olga Baclanova
3 films · 182 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1928–1932
Born 16 August 1893 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia] · died 6 September 1974
From Wikipedia
Ólga Vladímirovna Baclanova was a Russian-born actress and operatic singer, who achieved prominence during the silent film era and was often billed under her last name only, as Baclanova, similarly to the surname-only nomenclature assigned to fellow countryman Nazimova.
She was billed as the "Russian Tigress" and remains most noted by modern audiences for portraying Cleopatra in Tod Browning's horror movie Freaks (1932), which features a cast of actual carnival sideshow freaks.
Baclanova first came to New York City with the 1925 touring production of the Moscow Art Theatre's Lysistrata.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 182 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Olga 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, 72% of their frames are night, 59% low key — the look of the work Olga 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 182 frames from Olga Baclanova'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.