Overview

Born : March 8, 1910 in New York City, New York, USA

Died : April 8, 2000 in Newport Beach, California, USA  (respiratory illness)

Birth Name : Claire Wemlinger

Nickname : The Queen of Film Noir

Height : 5' 3" (1.6 m)

Claire Trevor was conceived Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst segment of Brooklyn, New York, the lone offspring of Fifth Avenue shipper tailor Noel Wemlinger, a settler Frenchman from Paris who lost his business during the Depression, and his Belfast-conceived spouse, Benjamina, known as "Betty". Youthful Claire's advantage in acting started when she was 11 years of age. She went to secondary school in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York. Subsequent to beginning classes at Columbia University, she burned through a half year at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, additionally in New York. Her grown-up acting experience started in the last part of the 1920s in a few stock creations. Her expert stage debut accompanied Robert Henderson's Repertory Players in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1930. That very year, matured 20, she endorsed with Warner Bros. Not excessively far from her home torment was Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, the last and best of the early solid cycle studios, which had been obtained by Warner Bros. in 1925 to become Vitaphone. Trevor showed up in a few of the almost 2000 shorts put out by the studio somewhere in the range of 1926 and 1930. Then, at that point, she was sent west to complete ten weeks of stock creations with other agreement players in St. Louis. In 1931 she summered stock with the Hampton Players in Southampton, Long Island. At long last, she appeared on Broadway in 1932 in "Putting on a brave face".


Trevor moved to the cinema, appearing in the western Life in the Raw (1933). There would be three additional movies (another western) that year and at least six through the 1930s. Despite the fact that she had been composed playing weapon molls and hard-case ladies of the world, she showed her all around extensive flexibility in these early movies, frequently playing able, assume responsibility proficient ladies as well as "obscure" women. There was a frustrated mope weakness in her face and that renowned somewhat New York-burred voice that broke with a little cry when increased by feeling that immediately uncovered an uncommon and touchy entertainer. A considerable lot of her initial movies were "B" potboilers, yet she worked with Spencer Tracy on a few events, quite Dante's Inferno (1935).


Hollywood at last considered her abilities by selecting her for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her champion exhibition as a ghetto young lady constrained by destitution into prostitution in Dead End (1937), inverse Humphrey Bogart. That very year she did the radio dramatization "Large Town" with Edward G. Robinson, then collaborated with he and Bogart again for the somewhat cheesy yet engaging The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). Chief John Ford tapped her for his first huge sound Western film, Stagecoach (1939), the film that made a star of John Wayne. Every one of her capacities to carry intricacy to a person displayed in her kicked-around ballroom young lady "Dallas", one of the incredible early female jobs. She and Wayne were electric, and they were combined in three additional movies during their professions.


During the 1940s, Trevor started showing up in the class that carried her to genuine fame: "film noir". She began incredibly as executioner Ruth Dillon in Street of Chance (1942) with Burgess Meredith. She was similarly persuading as the more perplexing yet in any case tricky Mrs. Grayle in the Philip Marlowe vehicle Murder, My Sweet (1944). Nonetheless, she was something altogether different and very unprecedented as cleaned up, pitifully alcoholic previous dance club vocalist and moll Gaye Dawn in Key Largo (1948), for which she won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress, again working with Bogart and Robinson. Her desolate version of the light tune "Moanin' Low", which her personality had to sing, humiliatingly, for the cruel kingpin played by Robinson (to whom she is, from a certain point of view, forever fastened) in return for a frantically required drink. There were greater quality motion pictures and an extra Academy assignment (The High and the Mighty (1954)) into the 1950s,, yet she additionally was taking care of business in front of an audience and in TV.


She was energetic about live TV and showed up on a few renowned shows by the mid-1950s. She won an Emmy for Best Live Television Performance by an Actress as the offbeat spouse of Fredric March in NBC's Producers' Showcase: Dodsworth (1956). She exchanged her vocation among film, stage and TV jobs. As she matured she handily changed into "recognized lady" and mother jobs, one of her most surprising ones being the dangerous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959). Her last film job was as Sally Field's mom in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982).


Trevor and her third spouse, maker Milton H. Bren, had for some time been inhabitants of tony Newport Beach, California, to which they returned when she at last resigned from screen work. Be that as it may, she kept a functioning interest in stage work, and became related with the University of California-Irvine's School of Arts. She and her better half contributed a $10 million to additional its advancement for the visual and performing expressions (that included three blessed residencies). After her passing in April 2000 at 90 years old, the University renamed the school The Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Her presence on the UCI grounds is in more than soul alone. She gave her Oscar and her Emmy to UCI; both are in plain view in artistic expressions square at the grounds theater that bears her name.

Brought forth her lone youngster at age 33, a child Charles Cyclos Dunsmoore on December 1, 1943. Youngster's dad was her second ex, Cyclos Dunsmoore yet he was subsequently embraced by her third spouse, Milton H. Bren. Her two stepsons were Peter Bren and land extremely rich person Donald Bren.

Shown up at an Oscars broadcast IN 1998 at The 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998) as a feature of a recognition succession called "Oscar's Family Album". She wore a dark outfit and gems situated between Marisa Tomei and Jon Voight. Individual honoree Michael Caine honored her calling her a 'remarkable person'.

Joan Crawford at first battled for Trevor to star close by her in Johnny Guitar (1954), desirous of the a lot more youthful Mercedes McCambridge, who was ultimately projected.

In Italy, dissimilar to other significant Hollywood entertainers, she didn't have an authority voice. She was thusly named by Tina Lattanzi (most eminently in Stagecoach (1939)), Lydia Simoneschi, Giovanna Scotto, Dhia Cristiani, Rosetta Calavetta, Rina Morelli, Wanda Tettoni and Marcella Rovena.

Profiled in "Executioner Tomatoes: Fifteen Tough Film Dames" by Ray Hagen and Laura Wagner (McFarland, 2004).

Profiled in "Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 1998).

She was a resolute Republican who gave a lot of her time and cash towards different moderate political causes. She likewise went to a few of the Republican National Conventions and was dynamic in the missions of Wendell Willkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.

Trevor hated biting gum and tried not to utilize it. Whenever a job required her personality to bite gum, she mentioned the prop man to keep her provided with caramels for as many takes that it took to get the scene.


Was the 31st entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Key Largo (1948) at The 21st Academy Awards on March 24, 1949.

Is one of 22 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the province of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Anne Revere, Celeste Holm, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.

Was one of 4 Best Supporting Actress Oscar victors to have visitor featured in Murder, She Wrote (1984). The others are Teresa Wright, Kim Hunter and Shirley Jones.

Ms. Trevor featured with John Wayne in three of his initial featuring vehicles, "Stagecoach", "Allegheny Uprising", and "Dim Command", and was top charged over Wayne in every one of the three.

Her picture shows up on the front of The Electro Swing Revolution Vol. 3 CD.

Alumna of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1929.

List of Claire Trevor Movies

  • Breaking Home Ties (TV Movie)
  •  Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)
  •  The Love Boat (TV Series)
  •  Kiss Me Goodbye
  •  The Cape Town Affair
  •  How to Murder Your Wife
  •  Woman of Summer
  •  Two Weeks in Another Town
  •  The Investigators (TV Series)
  •  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series)
  •  Marjorie Morningstar
  •  The Mountain
  •  Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series)
  •  Climax! (TV Series)
  •  Lucy Gallant
  •  Man Without a Star
  •  The Ford Television Theatre (TV Series)
  •  The High and the Mighty
  •  General Electric Theater (TV Series)
  •  The Stranger Wore a Gun
  •  Stop, You're Killing Me
  •  My Man and I
  •  Hoodlum Empire
  •  Best of the Badmen
  •  Hard, Fast and Beautiful!
  •  Borderline
  •  The Lucky Stiff
  •  The Babe Ruth Story
  •  Key Largo
  •  The Velvet Touch
  •  Raw Deal
  •  Born to Kill
  •  Bachelor Girls
  •  Crack-Up
  •  Johnny Angel
  •  Murder, My Sweet
  •  The Woman of the Town
  •  Good Luck, Mr. Yates
  •  The Desperadoes
  •  Street of Chance
  •  Crossroads
  •  The Adventures of Martin Eden
  •  Texas
  •  Honky Tonk
  •  Dark Command
  •  The First Rebel
  •  I Stole a Million
  •  Stagecoach
  •  Five of a Kind
  •  Valley of the Giants
  •  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  •  Walking Down Broadway
  •  Big Town Girl
  •  Second Honeymoon
  •  Dead End
  •  One Mile from Heaven
  •  King of Gamblers
  •  Time Out for Romance
  •  Career Woman
  •  15 Maiden Lane
  •  Star for a Night
  •  To Mary - with Love
  •  Human Cargo
  •  Song and Dance Man
  •  My Marriage
  •  Navy Wife
  •  Dante's Inferno
  •  Spring Tonic
  •  Black Sheep
  •  Elinor Norton
  •  Baby, Take a Bow
  •  Wild Gold
  •  Hold That Girl
  •  Jimmy and Sally
  •  The Mad Game
  •  The Last Trail
  •  Life in the Raw    & Many more….