Claire Trevor
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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]
Known for
Credits
Honky Tonk (1941)
as "Gold Dust" Nelson
Stagecoach (1939)
as Dallas
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
as Edna
Key Largo (1948)
as Gaye Dawn
Dead End (1937)
as Francey
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
as Helen Grayle
The High and the Mighty (1954)
as May Holst
The Mountain (1956)
as Marie
Crack-Up (1946)
as Terry Cordell
Black Sheep (1935)
as Janette Foster
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
as Rose Morgenstern
The Desperadoes (1943)
as Countess Maletta
Raw Deal (1948)
as Pat Cameron
Born to Kill (1947)
as Helen Brent
Borderline (1950)
as Madeleine Haley
Allegheny Uprising (1939)
as Janie MacDougall
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
as Charlotte
Dark Command (1940)
as Miss Mary McCloud
Texas (1941)
as Michael 'Mike' King
Man Without a Star (1955)
as Idonee
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
as Jo Keller
Lucy Gallant (1955)
as Lady MacBeth
Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
as Clara Kruger
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
as Claire Hodgson Ruth
The Stripper (1963)
as Helen Baird
My Man and I (1952)
as Mrs. Elena Ames
The Velvet Touch (1948)
as Marian Webster
A Star Is Born World Premiere (1954)
as Self
Crossroads (1942)
as Michelle Allaine
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
King of Gamblers (1937)
as Dixie Moore
Hoodlum Empire (1952)
as Connie Williams
My Marriage (1936)
as Carol Barton
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Best of the Badmen (1951)
as Lily
Breaking Home Ties (1987)
as Grace Porter
Valley of the Giants (1938)
as Lee Roberts
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Josie Sullivan
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)
Actor
Johnny Angel (1945)
as Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson
Human Cargo (1936)
as Bonnie Brewster
Five of a Kind (1938)
as Christine Nelson
Navy Wife (1935)
as Vicky Blake
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
as Connie Dawson
Walking Down Broadway (1938)
as Joan Bradley
Dante's Inferno (1935)
as Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter
The Woman of the Town (1943)
as Dora Hand
I Stole a Million (1939)
as Laura Benson
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
as (archive footage)
Big Town Girl (1937)
as Fay Loring
Elinor Norton (1934)
as Elinor Norton
Hold That Girl (1934)
as Tonie Bellamy
To Mary - with Love (1936)
as Kitty Brant
15 Maiden Lane (1936)
as Jane Martin
Time Out for Romance (1937)
as Barbara Blanchard
The Lucky Stiff (1949)
as Marguerite Seaton
Hard, Fast and Beautiful! (1951)
as Millie Farley
Spring Tonic (1935)
as Betty Ingals
Star for a Night (1936)
as Nina Lind
Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)
as Ruth Jones
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
as Nora Marko
Song and Dance Man (1936)
as Julia Carroll
The Cape Town Affair (1967)
as Sam Williams
Career Woman (1936)
as Carroll Aiken
The Mad Game (1933)
as Jane Lee
Baby Take a Bow (1934)
as Kay Ellison
Second Honeymoon (1937)
as Marcia
Street of Chance (1942)
as Ruth Dillon
The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
as Cynthia Davis
The Last Trail (1933)
as Patricia Carter
Wild Gold (1934)
as Jerry Jordan
Life in the Raw (1933)
as Judy Halloway
If You Knew Elizabeth (1957)
as Elizabeth Owen
One Mile from Heaven (1937)
as Lucy 'Tex' Warren
Jimmy and Sally (1933)
as Sally Johnson