Claire Trevor

Born: 1910-03-08

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]


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How to Murder Your Wife

as Edna
Released: 1965-01-26

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash...

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Stagecoach

as Dallas
Released: 1939-03-03

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of...

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The High and the Mighty

as May Holst
Released: 1954-07-03

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command...

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Dead End

as Francey
Released: 1937-08-27

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up,...

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Murder, My Sweet

as Helen Grayle
Released: 1944-12-14

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply...

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Crack-Up

as Terry Cordell
Released: 1946-09-06

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up,...

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Born to Kill

as Helen Brent
Released: 1947-04-30

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by...

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Man Without a Star

as Idonee
Released: 1955-03-24

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

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Raw Deal

as Pat Cameron
Released: 1948-05-21

Joe Sullivan (O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed...

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Key Largo

as Gaye Dawn
Released: 1948-07-16

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key...

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The Desperadoes

as Countess Maletta
Released: 1943-05-25

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They...

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Two Weeks in Another Town

as Clara Kruger
Released: 1962-08-17

After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old...

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The Babe Ruth Story

as Claire Hodgson Ruth
Released: 1948-09-16

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees...

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

as Jo Keller
Released: 1938-07-20

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by...

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The Stranger Wore a Gun

as Josie Sullivan
Released: 1953-07-30

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a...

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Hoodlum Empire

as Connie Williams
Released: 1952-04-15

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to...

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Dark Command

as Miss Mary McCloud
Released: 1940-04-15

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the...

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The Stripper

as Helen Baird
Released: 1963-06-19

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a...

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One Mile from Heaven

as Lucy 'Tex' Warren
Released: 1937-08-18

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised...

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Johnny Angel

as Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson
Released: 1945-10-25

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

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Texas

as Michael 'Mike' King
Released: 1941-10-09

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up....

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My Man and I

as Mrs. Elena Ames
Released: 1952-09-05

In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he...

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The Mountain

as Marie
Released: 1956-05-31

Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a...

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Valley of the Giants

as Lee Roberts
Released: 1938-09-17

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to...

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Kiss Me Goodbye

as Charlotte
Released: 1982-12-22

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their...

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Crossroads

as Michelle Allaine
Released: 1942-07-23

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

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Marjorie Morningstar

as Rose Morgenstern
Released: 1958-04-24

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for...

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You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

as Self
Released: 2008-05-15

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland...

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The Mad Game

as Jane Lee
Released: 1933-10-27

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to...

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Street of Chance

as Ruth Dillon
Released: 1942-10-03

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling...

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Best of the Badmen

as Lily
Released: 1951-08-09

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the...

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Allegheny Uprising

as Janie MacDougall
Released: 1939-11-10

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of...

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The Velvet Touch

as Marian Webster
Released: 1948-07-13

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

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Second Honeymoon

as Marcia
Released: 1937-11-13

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new...

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Career Woman

as Carroll Aiken
Released: 1936-12-18

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and...

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Dante's Inferno

as Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter
Released: 1935-08-23

A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

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Wild Gold

as Jerry Jordan
Released: 1934-06-08

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time...

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Lucy Gallant

as Lady MacBeth
Released: 1955-10-20

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas...

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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-07-02

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips...

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The Cape Town Affair

as Sam Williams
Released: 1967-09-19

South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the...

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Borderline

as Madeleine Haley
Released: 1950-03-01

The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they...

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The Woman of the Town

as Dora Hand
Released: 1943-12-31

Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of...

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15 Maiden Lane

as Jane Martin
Released: 1936-10-16

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

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The Adventures of Martin Eden

as Connie Dawson
Released: 1942-02-26

Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

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Black Sheep

as Janette Foster
Released: 1935-08-01

On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man...

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Stop, You're Killing Me

as Nora Marko
Released: 1952-12-10

A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case...

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Honky Tonk

as Pearl
Released: 1941-10-01

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but...

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Big Town Girl

as Fay Loring
Released: 1937-12-03

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the...

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates

as Ruth Jones
Released: 1943-06-29

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the...

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Hard, Fast and Beautiful

as Millie Farley
Released: 1951-05-23

When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley...

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Breaking Home Ties

as Grace Porter
Released: 1987-11-26

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man...

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The Bachelor's Daughters

as Cynthia Davis
Released: 1946-08-06

A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their...

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Elinor Norton

as Elinor Norton
Released: 1934-11-02

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a...

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Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

as uncredited
Released: 1936-08-05

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United...

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Five of a Kind

as Christine Nelson
Released: 1938-10-14

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

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The Lucky Stiff

as Marguerite Seaton
Released: 1949-05-26

A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

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Human Cargo

as Bonnie Brewster
Released: 1936-05-15

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an...

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To Mary - with Love

as Kitty Brant
Released: 1936-08-01

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes...

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Walking Down Broadway

as Joan Bradley
Released: 1938-03-11

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway...

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The Last Trail

as Patricia Carter
Released: 1933-08-25

Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely...

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Song and Dance Man

as Julia Carroll
Released: 1936-03-11

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of...

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Baby Take a Bow

as Kay Ellison
Released: 1934-06-30

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he...

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My Marriage

as Carol Barton
Released: 1936-01-31

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who...

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Life in the Raw

as Judy Halloway
Released: 1933-07-07

Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.

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Jimmy and Sally

as Sally Johnson
Released: 1933-11-04

Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our...

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I Stole a Million

as Laura Benson
Released: 1939-08-01

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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Time Out for Romance

as Barbara Blanchard
Released: 1937-02-10

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted...

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King of Gamblers

as Dixie Moore
Released: 1937-04-22

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead...

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Going Hollywood: The '30s

as (archive footage)
Released: 1984-01-01

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they...

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Navy Wife

as Vicky Blake
Released: 1935-09-17

A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

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Spring Tonic

as Betty Ingals
Released: 1935-06-27

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained...

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Star for a Night

as Nina Lind
Released: 1936-08-28

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

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Hold That Girl

as Tonie Bellamy
Released: 1934-03-23

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her...

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Judith Harlan
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Climax!

as Phyllis Talbot
First aired: 1954-10-07

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...

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Wagon Train

as C.L. Harding
First aired: 1957-09-18

The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...

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Dr. Kildare

as Nurse Veronica Johnson
First aired: 1961-09-27

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mary Prescott
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Mrs. Meade
First aired: 1955-10-02

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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General Electric Theater

as Cora Leslie
First aired: 1953-02-01

General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Mary Hunter
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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