Claire Trevor
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| Born | 8 March 1910 Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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| Died | 8 April 2000 (aged 90) Newport Beach, California, USA |
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| Years active | 1933-1987 | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Clark Andrews (1938-1942) Cyclos William Dunsmoore (1943-1947) Milton H. Bren (1948-1979) |
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Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 - April 8, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Trevor was born as Claire Wemlinger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, the only child of a 5th Avenue merchant-tailor and his wife. Her family was of Irish American and French American descent.
[edit] Career
Trevor's acting career spanned more than seven decades and included success in stage, radio, television and film. Trevor often played the hard-boiled blonde, and every conceivable type of "bad girl" role. After attending American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she began her acting career in the late '20s in stock. By 1932 she was starring on Broadway; that same year she began appearing in Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone shorts. Her first credited film role was in the 1933 film Life in the Raw, with her feature film debut coming that same year in Jimmy and Sally (1933), with her portraying "Sally Johnson". From 1933 through 1938 Trevor starred in twenty nine films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937 she starred with Humphrey Bogart in Dead End, which would lead to her being nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
By 1939 she was well established as a solid "leading lady". Some of her most memorable performances during this period were opposite John Wayne, including the classic 1939 western Stagecoach, which was Wayne's breakthrough role. She also starred opposite Wayne in Allegheny Uprising that same year, and again in 1940 in Dark Command. Another two of her more memorable roles was when she starred in Murder, My Sweet opposite Dick Powell, and fellow film noir flick Born to Kill playing a divorcee who gets more than she bargained for by falling in love with a bad boy who impulsively murders.
[edit] Private life
Trevor married film producer Clark Andrews in 1938, but they divorced four years later. Her second marriage to Cylos William Dunsmoore produced a son, Charles. The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. The next year, Trevor married Milton Bren, another film producer and soon after moved to Newport Beach, California.
In 1978 her son Charles Dunsmoore died in an airliner crash and her last husband, Milton Bren, died from a brain tumor in 1979. Trevor retired from acting in 1987. She made a special Academy Awards Appearance in 1998 at the 70th Academy Awards.
She died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, April 8, 2000 at the age of 90, survived by several stepchildren by her marriage to Bren. Trevor was cremated and her remains were scattered at sea.
[edit] Awards and nominations
Trevor seemed to have her best performances when starring with either John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart. Of the Academy Award nominations and wins that she earned, two were starring opposite Bogart, and one was opposite Wayne. Although she was not nominated for an Academy Award for her performance in Wayne's 1939 breakthrough film, Stagecoach, the film itself received Academy Award nominations in four categories, winning two of them.
Her awards and accolades included:
- She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Dead End, a 1937 melodrama in which she played a good girl who grows up to be a prostitute, which co-starred Humphrey Bogart.
- Trevor won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her 1948 performance in Key Largo, co-starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall.
- She was nominated again for an Academy Award for her performance in The High and the Mighty, a 1954 airplane disaster epic starring John Wayne.
- In 1956, Trevor won an Emmy for Best Live Television Performance by an Actress for Dodsworth, with Fredric March, on NBC's Producers' Showcase.
- The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine was named in Trevor's honor. Both her Oscar and Emmy trophies are on display in the Arts Plaza there, next to the Claire Trevor Theatre.
- She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 1933 | Jimmy and Sally | Sally Johnson | |
| The Mad Game | Jane Lee | ||
| The Last Trail | Patricia Carter | ||
| Life in the Raw | Judy Halloway | ||
| 1934 | Elinor Norton | Elinor Norton | |
| Baby Take a Bow | Kay Ellison | ||
| Wild Gold | Jerry Jordan | ||
| Hold That Girl | Tonie Bellamy | ||
| 1935 | Spring Tonic | Betty Ingals | |
| Black Sheep | Jeanette Foster | ||
| My Marriage | Carol Barton | ||
| Navy Wife | Vicky Blake | ||
| Dante's Inferno | Betty McWade | ||
| 1936 | Career Woman | Carroll Aiken | |
| Star for a Night | Nina Lind | ||
| To Mary - with Love | Kitty Brant | ||
| Human Cargo | Bonnie Brewster | ||
| Song and Dance Man | Julia Carroll | ||
| 15 Maiden Lane | Jane Martin | ||
| 1937 | Big Town Girl | Fay Loring | |
| Second Honeymoon | Marcia | ||
| One Mile from Heaven | Lucy 'Tex' Warren | ||
| King of Gamblers | Dixie Moore | ||
| Time Out for Romance | Barbara Blanchard | ||
| Dead End | Francey | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1938 | Five of a Kind | Christine Nelson | |
| Valley of the Giants | Lee Roberts | ||
| Walking Down Broadway | Joan Bradley | ||
| The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse | Jo Keller | ||
| 1939 | Stagecoach | Dallas | |
| I Stole a Million | Laura Benson | ||
| Allegheny Uprising | Janie MacDougall | ||
| 1940 | Dark Command | Miss Mary Cloud | |
| 1941 | Texas | Mike King | |
| Honky Tonk | 'Gold Dust' Nelson | ||
| 1942 | The Adventures of Martin Eden | Connie Dawson | |
| Crossroads | Michelle Allaine | ||
| Street of Chance | Ruth Dillon | ||
| 1943 | The Woman of the Town | Dora Hand | |
| Good Luck, Mr. Yates | Ruth Jones | ||
| The Desperadoes | Countess Maletta | ||
| 1944 | Murder, My Sweet | Mrs. Helen Grayle | |
| 1945 | Johnny Angel | Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson | |
| 1946 | The Bachelor's Daughters | Cynthia | |
| Crack-Up | Terry Cordell | ||
| 1947 | Born to Kill | Helen Trent | |
| 1948 | Raw Deal | Pat Cameron | |
| The Velvet Touch | Marian Webster | ||
| The Babe Ruth Story | Claire (Hodgson) Ruth | ||
| Key Largo | Gaye Dawn | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress | |
| 1949 | The Lucky Stiff | Marguerite Seaton | |
| 1950 | Borderline | Madeleine Haley, aka Gladys LaRue | |
| 1951 | Best of the Badmen | Lily | |
| Hard, Fast and Beautiful | Millie Farley | ||
| 1952 | Stop, You're Killing Me | Nora Marko | |
| My Man and I | Mrs. Ansel Ames | ||
| Hoodlum Empire | Connie Williams | ||
| 1953 | The Stranger Wore a Gun | Josie Sullivan | |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty | May Holst | Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| 1955 | Man Without a Star | Idonee | |
| Lucy Gallant | Lady MacBeth | ||
| 1956 | The Mountain | Marie | |
| 1958 | Marjorie Morningstar | Rose Morgenstern | |
| 1962 | Two Weeks in Another Town | Clara Kruger | |
| 1963 | The Stripper | Helen Baird | |
| 1965 | How to Murder Your Wife | Edna | |
| 1967 | The Cape Town Affair | Sam Williams | |
| 1982 | Kiss Me Goodbye | Charlotte Banning |
[edit] External links
- Claire Trevor at the Internet Movie Database
- Claire Trevor at TV.com
- Claire Trevor School of the Arts
- Photographs of Claire Trevor
- Claire Trevor at Find A Grave
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| NAME | Trevor, Claire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wemlinger, Claire |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 2000 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Newport Beach, California, USA |
