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person_profile-Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor Died at age: 90

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Claire Trevor

Date of Birth:

Mar 08, 1910

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Apr 08, 2000

Biography of

Claire Trevor

    Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor received top billing, ahead of John Wayne, for Stagecoach (1939).

    Trevor's acting career spanned more than seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television, and film. She often played the hard-boiled blonde, and every conceivable type of 'bad girl' role.

    She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She subsequently returned to New York, where she appeared in a number of Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone short films and performed in summer stock theatre. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in Whistling in the Dark.

    Trevor made her film debut in Jimmy and Sally (1933). From 1933 to 1938, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the second lead actress (after top-billed Sylvia Sidney) in Dead End, with Humphrey Bogart, which led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series Big Town, while continuing to make movies. In the early 1940s, she also was a regular on The Old Gold Don Ameche Show on the NBC Red Radio Network, starring with Ameche in presentations of plays by Mark Hellinger. In 1939, she was well established as a solid leading lady. One of her more memorable performances during this period includes the Western Stagecoach (1939).

    Two of Trevor's most memorable roles were opposite Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944) and with Lawrence Tierney in Born to Kill (1947). In Key Largo (1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, a washed-up, alcoholic nightclub singer and gangster's moll. For that role, she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954). In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled "Dodsworth". Trevor moved into supporting roles in the 1950s, with her appearances becoming very rare after the mid-1960s. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). Her final television role was for the 1987 television film, Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties. Trevor made a guest appearance at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998.

    For her contribution to the motion picture industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.

    [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

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Claire Trevor

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Filmography of

Claire Trevor

Found 72 Movies in total

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2009

... 2008

Breaking Home Ties

Grace Porter ( Actor )

... 1987

Going Hollywood: The '30s

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1984

Kiss Me Goodbye

Charlotte ( Actor )

... 1982

The Cape Town Affair

Sam Williams ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1965

The Stripper

Helen Baird ( Actor )

... 1963

Two Weeks in Another Town

Clara Kruger ( Actor )

... 1962

Marjorie Morningstar

Rose Morgenstern ( Actor )

... 1958

The Mountain

Marie ( Actor )

... 1956

Lucy Gallant

Lady MacBeth ( Actor )

... 1955

Man Without a Star

Idonee ( Actor )

... 1955

The High and the Mighty

May Holst ( Actor )

... 1954

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Josie Sullivan ( Actor )

... 1953

Stop, You're Killing Me

Nora Marko ( Actor )

... 1952

My Man and I

Mrs. Elena Ames ( Actor )

... 1952

Hoodlum Empire

Connie Williams ( Actor )

... 1952

Best of the Badmen

Lily ( Actor )

... 1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

Millie Farley ( Actor )

... 1951

Borderline

Madeleine Haley ( Actor )

... 1950

The Lucky Stiff

Marguerite Seaton ( Actor )

... 1949

The Babe Ruth Story

Claire Hodgson Ruth ( Actor )

... 1948

Key Largo

Gaye Dawn ( Actor )

... 1948

The Velvet Touch

Marian Webster ( Actor )

... 1948

Raw Deal

Pat Cameron ( Actor )

... 1948

Born to Kill

Helen Brent ( Actor )

... 1947

Crack-Up

Terry Cordell ( Actor )

... 1946

The Bachelor's Daughters

Cynthia Davis ( Actor )

... 1946

Johnny Angel

Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson ( Actor )

... 1945

Murder, My Sweet

Helen Grayle ( Actor )

... 1944

The Woman of the Town

Dora Hand ( Actor )

... 1943

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Ruth Jones ( Actor )

... 1943

The Desperadoes

Countess Maletta ( Actor )

... 1943

Street of Chance

Ruth Dillon ( Actor )

... 1942

Crossroads

Michelle Allaine ( Actor )

... 1942

The Adventures of Martin Eden

Connie Dawson ( Actor )

... 1942

Texas

Michael 'Mike' King ( Actor )

... 1941

Honky Tonk

Pearl ( Actor )

... 1941

Dark Command

Miss Mary McCloud ( Actor )

... 1940

Allegheny Uprising

Janie MacDougall ( Actor )

... 1939

I Stole a Million

Laura Benson ( Actor )

... 1939

Stagecoach

Dallas ( Actor )

... 1939

Five of a Kind

Christine Nelson ( Actor )

... 1938

Valley of the Giants

Lee Roberts ( Actor )

... 1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

Jo Keller ( Actor )

... 1938

Walking Down Broadway

Joan Bradley ( Actor )

... 1938

Big Town Girl

Fay Loring ( Actor )

... 1937

Second Honeymoon

Marcia ( Actor )

... 1937

Dead End

Francey ( Actor )

... 1937

One Mile from Heaven

Lucy 'Tex' Warren ( Actor )

... 1937

King of Gamblers

Dixie Moore ( Actor )

... 1937

Time Out for Romance

Barbara Blanchard ( Actor )

... 1937

Career Woman

Carroll Aiken ( Actor )

... 1936

15 Maiden Lane

Jane Martin ( Actor )

... 1936

Star for a Night

Nina Lind ( Actor )

... 1936

To Mary - with Love

Kitty Brant ( Actor )

... 1936

Human Cargo

Bonnie Brewster ( Actor )

... 1936

Song and Dance Man

Julia Carroll ( Actor )

... 1936

My Marriage

Carol Barton ( Actor )

... 1936

Navy Wife

Vicky Blake ( Actor )

... 1935

Dante's Inferno

Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter ( Actor )

... 1935

Black Sheep

Janette Foster ( Actor )

... 1935

Spring Tonic

Betty Ingals ( Actor )

... 1935

Elinor Norton

Elinor Norton ( Actor )

... 1934

Baby Take a Bow

Kay Ellison ( Actor )

... 1934

Wild Gold

Jerry Jordan ( Actor )

... 1934

Hold That Girl

Tonie Bellamy ( Actor )

... 1934

Jimmy and Sally

Sally Johnson ( Actor )

... 1933

The Mad Game

Jane Lee ( Actor )

... 1933

The Last Trail

Patricia Carter ( Actor )

... 1933

Life in the Raw

Judy Halloway ( Actor )

... 1933