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Valerie Perrine

Valerie Perrine

3 films · 234 frames · top-billed in 1 · 19742000

Born 3 September 1943 · Galveston, Texas, USA · died 23 March 2026

Valerie Ritchie Perrine was a American actress and model. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film appearances include Superman (1978), The Electric Horseman (1979), and Superman II (1980).

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How their films are shot

Measured across 234 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Valerie 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, 58% of their frames are night — the look of the work Valerie takes.

Time of day

Night58%
Day29%
Interior13%

Lighting

Low key36%
Natural31%
High key21%
Chiaroscuro7%

Shot size

Medium50%
Closeup24%
Wide18%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level82%
High angle7%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense9%
Romantic5%
Lonely5%

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 234 frames from Valerie Perrine'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.