1910-03-08 ( 115 years old ) in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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]
Movies
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009-07-02
Breaking Home Ties
1987-11-26
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984-01-01
Kiss Me Goodbye
1982-12-22
The Cape Town Affair
1967-09-19
How to Murder Your Wife
1965-01-26
The Stripper
1963-06-19
Two Weeks in Another Town
1962-08-17
Marjorie Morningstar
1958-04-24
The Mountain
1956-05-31
Lucy Gallant
1955-10-20
Man Without a Star
1955-03-24
A Star Is Born World Premiere
1954-09-28
The High and the Mighty
1954-07-03
The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953-07-30
Stop, You're Killing Me
1952-12-10
My Man and I
1952-09-05
Hoodlum Empire
1952-04-15
Best of the Badmen
1951-08-09
Hard, Fast and Beautiful
1951-05-23
Borderline
1950-03-01
The Lucky Stiff
1949-05-26
The Babe Ruth Story
1948-09-16
Key Largo
1948-07-16
The Velvet Touch
1948-07-13
Raw Deal
1948-05-21
Born to Kill
1947-04-30
Crack-Up
1946-09-06
The Bachelor's Daughters
1946-08-06
Johnny Angel
1945-10-25
Murder, My Sweet
1944-12-14
The Woman of the Town
1943-12-31
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943-06-29
The Desperadoes
1943-05-25
Street of Chance
1942-10-03
Crossroads
1942-07-23
The Adventures of Martin Eden
1942-02-26
Texas
1941-10-09
Honky Tonk
1941-10-01
Dark Command
1940-04-15
Allegheny Uprising
1939-11-10
I Stole a Million
1939-08-01
Stagecoach
1939-03-02
Five of a Kind
1938-10-14
Valley of the Giants
1938-09-17
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938-07-20
Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Big Town Girl
1937-12-03
Second Honeymoon
1937-11-13
Dead End
1937-08-27
One Mile from Heaven
1937-08-18
King of Gamblers
1937-04-22
Time Out for Romance
1937-02-10
Career Woman
1936-12-18
15 Maiden Lane
1936-10-16
Star for a Night
1936-08-28
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936-08-05
To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
Human Cargo
1936-05-15
Song and Dance Man
1936-03-11
My Marriage
1936-01-31
Navy Wife
1935-09-17
Dante's Inferno
1935-08-23
Black Sheep
1935-08-01
Spring Tonic
1935-06-27
Elinor Norton
1934-11-02
Baby Take a Bow
1934-06-30
Wild Gold
1934-06-08
Hold That Girl
1934-03-23
Jimmy and Sally
1933-11-04
The Mad Game
1933-10-27
The Last Trail
1933-08-25
Life in the Raw
1933-07-07
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