FrameThrower · Actors · Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1949
Born 30 November 1920 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA · died 17 January 2005
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Virginia Mayo was an American film actress. After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and White Heat (1949). She worked extensively during the 1950s, but after this her appearances were fewer. She worked occasionally until her final performance in 1997.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1946–1949
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Virginia 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, 50% of their frames are night, 41% low key — the look of the work Virginia 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 130 frames from Virginia Mayo'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.