FrameThrower · Actors · Tom Ewell
Tom Ewell
2 films · 118 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1956
Born 29 April 1909 · Owensboro, Kentucky, USA · died 12 September 1994
Tom Ewell was an American stage, screen, and television actor. He is noted for having Starred alongside two of Classic Hollywood's Iconic Bombshells, first reprising his stage role in The Seven Year Itch (1955), which he starred Opposite Marilyn Munroe in what is considered one of her most iconic roles and then the following year The Girl Can't Help it (1956) alongside Jayne Mansfield in her breakthrough role. Ewell had 70 credits in film and television.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 118 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1955–1956
- Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play1953
- Donaldson Awards
- Clarence Derwent Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 118 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Tom takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 49% of their frames are night, 47% high key — the look of the work Tom takes.
Time of day
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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 118 frames from Tom Ewell's 2 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.