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==Claire Trevor (1909-2000)==

Nicknamed "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many
appearances in Bad girl movies|"bad girl” roles
in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers,
Claire Trevor appeared in over 60 films.  Trevor
was born Claire Wemlinger on March 8, 1909 in
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York the only child of
a 5th Avenue merchant-tailor.
Claire Trevor's acting career spanned more than
seven decades and included success in stage,
radio, television and film. Trevor often played
the hard-boiled blond, and every conceivable type
of "bad girl" role.  After attending American
Academy of Dramatic Arts, she began her acting
career in the late '20s in stock. By 1932 she was
starring on Broadway; that same year she began
appearing in Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone shorts. 
Her feature film debut came in: Jimmy and Sally
(1933) as Sally Johnson.
A three-time Academy Award|Oscar nominee, Claire
Trevor earned Oscar nominations for Dead End, a
1937 melodrama in which she played a good girl who
grows up to be a prostitute, and for The High and
the Mighty (movie)|The High and the Mighty, a 1954
airplane disaster epic.   She won the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting
Actress award for her 1948 performance in Key
Largo (movie)|Key Largo, co-starring with Humphrey
Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall.  In
Key Largo, Trevor played the mistress to
Robinson's sadistic gangster.  In one scene, he
forces her to sing for a drink she badly wants.
Trevor struggles through the song only to be
refused the drink by Robinson "because you were
rotten." 

In 1956, Trevor won an Emmy for Best Live
Television Performance by an Actress for
Dodsworth, with Fredric March, on NBC's Producer's
Showcase.
A theatre at the University of California is named
in Trevor's honor.
In 1978 her son Charles died in an airliner crash
and her last husband, Milton, died from a brain
tumor in 1979.  Trevor retired from acting in
1987.  She died of respiratory failure in Newport
Beach, April 8, 2000 at the age of 91.  Trevor has
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.


== Marriages ==


*She married film producer Clark Andrews in 1938,
but they divorced four years later. 
*Her second marriage to Cylos William Dunsmoore
produced a son, Charles. The marriage ended in
divorce in 1947. 
*The next year, Trevor married Milton Bren,
another film producer and soon after moved to
Newport Beach, CA.
 
== Academy Awards ==

*Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role for
The High and the Mighty (movie)|The High and the
Mighty (1954)
*Won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Key
Largo (movie)|Key Largo (1948)
*Nominated Best Actress in a Supporting Role for
Dead End (1937)

== Notable Films ==


*Dead End (1937)
*Stagecoach (movie)|Stagecoach (1939)
*Murder, My Sweet (1944)
*The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
*Raw Deal (1948)|Raw Deal (1948)
*Born to Kill (1947)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0872456 | name=Claire Trevor
*http://www.arts.uci.edu/ Claire Trevor School of
the Arts