Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor (born March 8, 1910 in Bensonhurst , Brooklyn , New York ; † April 8, 2000 in Newport Beach , California ; actually Claire Wemlinger ) was an American actress , best known for her portrayal of kind-hearted "fallen" women was.
life and career
After studying acting, she began her career in the late 1920s. From 1932 on, she played very often gangster brides and saloon girls , initially almost exclusively in B movies . However, after her critically acclaimed supporting role in Dead End , she began to receive increasingly complex roles.
Nominated three times in total, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1948 for John Huston's Gangster in Key Largo , in which she played the alcoholic mistress of Edward G. Robinson . With Huston (this time as a screenwriter) and Robinson, she had already had a successful 1938 crime comedy The Double Life of Dr. Clitterhouse ( The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ) collaborated by Anatole Litvak . She was also able to draw attention to herself in the role of Alice (in the original language version Dallas ) in John Ford's Western Ringo ( 1939 ), in which she acted alongside John Wayne .
In the 1950s she increasingly appeared on television, which earned her an Emmy in 1956 .
From 1938 to 1942 she was married to producer Clark Andrews, from 1943 to 1947 to Cylos William Dunsmoore and from 1948 to his death in 1979 with producer Milton Bren. The second marriage resulted in a child.
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: The Ship of Satan ( Dante's Inferno )
- 1936: Dangerous cargo ( human cargo )
- 1937: Dead End ( Dead End )
- 1938: Valley of the Giants
- 1938: The double life of Dr. Clitterhouse (The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse)
- 1939: Black River (Allegheny Uprising)
- 1939: Ringo
- 1940: Dark Command ( Dark Command )
- 1941: A great guy ( Honky Tonk )
- 1941: Escape to Texas ( Texas )
- 1942: The Black Curtain ( Street of Chance )
- 1943: Desperados - Riot of the Outlaws ( The Desperados )
- 1943: The Woman of the Town (TV title A Woman for the Marshall )
- 1944: Murder, My Sweet
- 1947: Born To Kill
- 1948: Escape With No Way Out ( Raw Deal )
- 1948: Gangster in Key Largo (Key Largo)
- 1948: The Bronze Goddess ( The Velvet Touch )
- 1948: The Baby Ruth Story
- 1949: The Lucky Stiff
- 1950: Tijuana Connection (Borderline)
- 1951: Hard, Fast and Beautiful
- 1954: The High and the Mighty (The High and the Mighty)
- 1955: I want you to love me ( Lucy Gallant)
- 1955: With a fist as hard as steel ( Man Without a Star )
- 1956: The Mount of Temptation ( The Mountain )
- 1958: The Love of Marjorie Morningstar (Marjorie Morningstar)
- 1962: Two weeks in another city ( Two Weeks in Another Town )
- 1963: The Lost Rose ( The Stripper )
- 1964: What brings you to his wife ( How to Murder Your Wife )
- 1982: From the afterlife with love ( Kiss Me Goodbye )
Awards
- 1938: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Dead End
- 1949: Winner of an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Gangster in Key Largo
- 1955: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for It's Always Day
- 1957: Emmy Award for Best Guest Actress for Producers' Showcase
- 1960: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Film category)
- 1965: 5th place at the Laurel Award , Best Supporting Actress category , for How do you kill your wife
- 1995: Golden Boot Award for her life's work
Web links
- Claire Trevor in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Claire Trevor In: Virtual History
- "The Film Noir": Information on Claire Trevor
- Complete filmography with trailers and film clips at Turner Classic Movies
- Claire Trevor in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trevor, Claire |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wemlinger, Claire |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-american actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensonhurst , Brooklyn , New York , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 2000 |
| Place of death | Newport Beach , California , United States |