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Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor Born Died Years active Spouse(s) March 8, 1910(1910-03-08) Brooklyn, New York April 8, 2000 (aged 90) Newport Beach, California 1933-1987 Clark Andrews (1938-1942) Cyclos William Dunsmoore (1943-1947) Milton H. Bren (1948-1979)
Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910[1][2] - 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.
Early life
Trevor was born as Claire Wemlinger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York in 1910 (some sources state 1909,1911 or 1912),[3][4] the only child of a 5th Avenue merchant-tailor and his wife. Her family was of Irish American and French American descent.
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. Key Largo the following year, gave Trevor the role of Gaye Dawn, the washed up nightclub singer and gangster’s moll. She won the Academy Award for Best supporting Actress for the film. Trevor moved into supporting roles in the 1950’s, with her appearances becoming increasingly rare after the mid 1960’s. She returned for one final film, playing Sally Field’s mother in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). Following a few television apparenaces, Trevor retired from acting in 1987. She made a special appearance at the 70th annual Academy Awards in 1998.
Personal 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.
Death
Claire Trevor died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, April 8, 2000 at the age of
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90.[5] For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Claire Trevor has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Blvd. 1936 Career Woman Star for a Night To Mary with Love
Claire Trevor
Carroll Aiken Nina Lind Kitty Brant
Legacy
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.
Human Cargo Bonnie Brewster Song and Dance Man 15 Maiden Lane 1937 Second Honeymoon One Mile from Heaven King of Gamblers Time Out for Romance Dead End Julia Carroll Jane Martin
Filmography
Film Year 1933 Film Jimmy and Sally The Mad Game Role Sally Johnson Jane Lee Notes
Big Town Girl Fay Loring Marcia Lucy ’Tex’ Warren Dixie Moore Barbara Blanchard Francey Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Last Trail Patricia Carter Life in the Raw 1934 Judy Halloway
Elinor Norton Elinor Norton Baby Take a Bow Wild Gold Hold That Girl Kay Ellison Jerry Jordan Tonie Bellamy Betty Ingals Jeanette Foster Carol Barton Vicky Blake Betty McWade 1938 Five of a Kind Christine Nelson Valley of the Giants Walking Down Broadway The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 1939 Stagecoach I Stole a Million Allegheny Uprising 1940 1941 Dark Command Texas Honky Tonk Lee Roberts Joan Bradley
1935
Spring Tonic Black Sheep My Marriage Navy Wife Dante’s Inferno
Jo Keller
Dallas Laura Benson Janie MacDougall Miss Mary Cloud Mike King ’Gold Dust’ Nelson
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1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden Crossroads Street of Chance 1943 The Woman of the Town Good Luck, Mr. Yates The Desperadoes 1944 1945 1946 Murder, My Sweet Johnny Angel The Bachelor’s Daughters Crack-Up 1947 1948 Born to Kill Raw Deal The Velvet Touch The Babe Ruth Story Key Largo Connie Dawson Michelle Allaine Ruth Dillon 1953 Dora Hand 1954 Ruth Jones Countess Maletta Mrs. Helen Grayle Lilah ’Lily’ Gustafson Cynthia 1956 Terry Cordell Helen Trent Pat Cameron Marian Webster Claire (Hodgson) Ruth Gaye Dawn 1958 1962 1952 Stop, You’re Killing Me
Claire Trevor
Nora Marko
My Man and I Mrs. Ansel Ames Hoodlum Empire The Stranger Wore a Gun Connie Williams Josie Sullivan Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The High and May Holst the Mighty
1955
Man Without a Star Lucy Gallant
Idonee Lady MacBeth Rose Morgenstern
The Mountain Marie Marjorie Morningstar
Two Weeks in Clara Another Kruger Town The Stripper How to Murder Your Wife The Cape Town Affair Helen Baird Edna
1963 1965
1967
Academy Kiss Me Award 1982 for Goodbye Best Supporting Television Actress Year Title
Sam Williams Charlotte Banning Role Felicia Crandell Notes 2 episodes
1949 1950
The Lucky Stiff Borderline
Marguerite Seaton Madeleine Haley, aka Gladys LaRue Lily Millie Farley
1953-1954 The Ford Television Theatre 1954-1955 Lux Video Theatre 1954-1956 General Electric Theater 1955 1956 Stage 7 Climax! Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Producers’ Showcase
2 episodes Cora Leslie 2 episodes 1 episode 1 episode 1 episode
1951
Best of the Badmen Hard, Fast and Beautiful
Fran Dodsworth
1 episode
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1956-1961 Alfred Hitch- Mary cock Presents Prescott Mrs. Meade 1957 1959
Claire Trevor
1960
[3] "Oscar Winner Claire Trevor Dies". 2 episodes highbeam.com. 2000-04-08. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/ 1P1-25742873.html. Retrieved on Playhouse 90 Elizabeth 1 episode 2009-02-20. Owen [4] "Claire Trevor Biography (1909-2000)". Westinghouse Savannah 1 episode filmreference.com. Desilu Brown http://www.filmreference.com/film/5/ Playhouse Claire-Trevor.html. Retrieved on Wagon Train C.L. Harding 1 episode 2009-02-20. [5] The Kate Clark 1 episode "Claire Trevor, 91, Versatile Actress, Dies". New York Times. 2000-04-10. Untouchables ’Ma’ Barker http://query.nytimes.com/gst/ The United 1 episode fullpage.html?res=9C06EFDB163EF933A25757C0A9 States Steel Retrieved on 2009-02-20. Hour The Investigators Dr. Kildare The Love Boat Murder, She Wrote Breaking Home Times Judith Harlan Kitty Harper 1 episode Veronica Johnson
1961 1962 1983 1987
External links
• Claire Trevor at the Internet Movie 1 episode Database • Claire Trevor at TV.com 1 episode • Claire Trevor School of the Arts • Photographs of Claire Trevor 1 episode • Claire Trevor at Find A Grave
Grace Porter Television Persondata movie NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH
Trevor, Claire Wemlinger, Claire Actress March 8, 1910 Brooklyn, New York April 8, 2000 Newport Beach, California
References
[1] Drew, William M. (1999). At the Center of the Frame: Leading Ladies of the Twenties and Thirties. Vestal Press. pp. 319. ISBN 1-879-51142-8. [2] Hagen, Ray; Laura Wagner (2004). Killer Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames. McFarland. pp. 222. ISBN 0-786-41883-4.
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