FrameThrower · Actors · Sandy Dennis
Sandy Dennis
4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1966–1991
Born 27 April 1937 · Hastings, Nebraska, USA · died 2 March 1992
Sandra Dale "Sandy" Dennis was an American actress. She made her film debut in the drama Splendor in the Grass (1961). For her performance in the comedy-drama film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Dennis appeared in the films The Three Sisters (1966), Up the Down Staircase (1967), That Cold Day in the Park (1969), The Out-of-Towners (1970), God Told Me To (1976), The Four Seasons (1981), Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), and Another Woman (1988).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 235 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1966–1991
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1967
- Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play1964
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play1963
- Theatre World Award1961
How their films are shot
Measured across 235 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Sandy 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, 65% of their frames are night, 50% low key — the look of the work Sandy 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 235 frames from Sandy Dennis'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.