FrameThrower · Actors · Valentina Cortese
Valentina Cortese
5 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1963–1988
Born 1 January 1923 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy · died 10 July 2019
Valentina Cortese was an Italian film actress.
The Milan-born actress starred in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) directed by Robert Wise, and costarring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan. Cortese, aged 28, married Basehart in 1951, and had one son with him before they divorced in 1960.
She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1975 for her performance in François Truffaut's Day for Night.
Cortese appeared in Jules Dassin's Thieves' Highway (1949), Joseph L.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1963–1988
- Grolla d'oro for Best Leading Actress1956
How their films are shot
Measured across 320 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Valentina takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 40% natural — the look of the work Valentina 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 320 frames from Valentina Cortese's 5 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.