
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]
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.931 |
Birthday | 1910-03-08 |
Place of Birth | Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Claire Wemlinger, The Queen of Film Noir, |

1939

Stagecoach
7.6/1128
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1944

Murder, My Sweet
7.2/227
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
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1948

Key Largo
7.5/537
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1934

Baby Take a Bow
5.5/16
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convi...
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1952

Hoodlum Empire
6.1/11
It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne...
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1965

How to Murder Your Wife
6.3/126
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse...
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1958

Marjorie Morningstar
6.2/19
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at...
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1946

Crack-Up
5.6/29
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
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1948

Raw Deal
6.7/101
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pu...
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1947

Born to Kill
6.7/81
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
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1934

Wild Gold
5/1
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1937

Dead End
6.976/127
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1940

Dark Command
6.337/52
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1948

The Velvet Touch
6.1/27
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1945

Johnny Angel
5.9/28
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.
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1942

Street of Chance
5.3/18
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1942

Crossroads
5.9/35
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1955

Man Without a Star
6.467/106
A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.
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1953

The Stranger Wore a Gun
5.419/31
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1967

The Cape Town Affair
3.8/9
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1948

The Babe Ruth Story
5.8/8
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1939

Allegheny Uprising
5.6/27
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1962

Two Weeks in Another Town
5.896/53
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1939

I Stole a Million
6/1
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.
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1950

Borderline
5.5/24
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1938

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
7.2/48
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1954

The High and the Mighty
5.9/74
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1982

Kiss Me Goodbye
5.8/43
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1951

Hard, Fast and Beautiful
5.9/10
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1941

Texas
6.5/20
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1956

The Mountain
6.9/45
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1952

Stop, You're Killing Me
5/1
With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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1943

The Desperadoes
5.7/28
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1941

Honky Tonk
6.4/12
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1951

Best of the Badmen
6.5/14
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1936

Career Woman
6/2
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1955

Lucy Gallant
7/6
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
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1943

Good Luck, Mr. Yates
5.8/2
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1949

The Lucky Stiff
4.8/3
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1935

Dante's Inferno
6.2/11
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1935

Black Sheep
7/2
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1937

One Mile from Heaven
6.7/4
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1936

15 Maiden Lane
6/1
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1937

Second Honeymoon
5.8/6
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1963

The Stripper
4.7/11
An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a...
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1938

Valley of the Giants
6/5
A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.
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1935

Spring Tonic
5.3/3
Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.
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1938

Five of a Kind
4.2/4
Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.
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1946

The Bachelor's Daughters
6.5/1
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rente...
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1943

The Woman of the Town
6/3
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...
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1933

The Mad Game
0/0
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the jud...
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1984

Going Hollywood: The '30s
10/1
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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1952

My Man and I
6.8/5
In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad...
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My Man and I

1936

Human Cargo
6/1
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to...
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1936

To Mary - with Love
4.5/2
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...
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1933

Life in the Raw
0/0
Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.
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Life in the Raw

1942

The Adventures of Martin Eden
6/1
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.
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The Adventures of Martin Eden

1936

Song and Dance Man
0/0
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
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Song and Dance Man

1935

Navy Wife
5/1
A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.
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Navy Wife

1937

Time Out for Romance
5.6/5
A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.
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Time Out for Romance

1937

Big Town Girl
6/1
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a cro...
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Big Town Girl

1934

Hold That Girl
0/0
"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses a...
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Hold That Girl

1937

King of Gamblers
7/1
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...
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2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
8.5/12
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....
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1933

The Last Trail
0/0
Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad...
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The Last Trail

1936

Star for a Night
6/1
Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.
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Star for a Night

1933

Jimmy and Sally
4/2
Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart S...
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1934

Elinor Norton
6/1
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her hus...
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Elinor Norton

1936

My Marriage
5/2
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his...
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My Marriage

1938

Walking Down Broadway
5.7/3
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...
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Walking Down Broadway

1954

A Star Is Born World Premiere
8/2
Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...
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1987

Breaking Home Ties
6.5/2
Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the...
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1936

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1/1
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
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2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
7.5/12
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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