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Claire Trevor

in the film Raw Deal (1948)
BornMarch 8 1910(1910--)
Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 8 2000 (aged 90)
Newport Beach, California, U.S.
Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 - April 8, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress, nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films.

Early life

Trevor was born as Claire Wemlinger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, the only child of a 5th Avenue merchant-tailor and his wife. Her family was of Irish American and French American descent.

Career

Trevor's acting career spanned more than seven decades and included success in stage, radio, television and film. Trevor often played the hard-boiled blonde, 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". Other notable performances were in the classic western Stagecoach with John Wayne, and Murder, My Sweet opposite Dick Powell

Awards and nominations

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Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne
Trevor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her 1948 performance in Key Largo, co-starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson and Lauren Bacall. She was also nominated for the same award for Dead End, a 1937 melodrama in which she played a good girl who grows up to be a prostitute, and The High and the Mighty, a 1954 airplane disaster epic starring John Wayne. In 1956, Trevor won an Emmy for Best Live Television Performance by an Actress for Dodsworth, with Fredric March, on NBC's Producers' Showcase.

The Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine was named in Trevor's honor. Both her Oscar and Emmy trophies are on display in the Arts Plaza there, next to the Claire Trevor Theatre.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Private life

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Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell
Trevor 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, California.

In 1978 her only biological child, her son Charles Dunsmoore, died in an airliner crash and her last husband, Milton Bren, died from a brain tumor in 1979. Trevor retired from acting in 1987. She made a special Academy Awards Appearance in 1998 at the 70th Academy Awards.

She died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, April 8, 2000 at the age of 90, survived by several step-children by her marriage to Bren. Claire Trevor was cremated and her remains were scattered at sea.

Awards
Preceded by
Celeste Holm
for Gentleman's Agreement		Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
1948
for Key Largo 		Succeeded by
Mercedes McCambridge
for All the King's Men

Selected filmography

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Raw Deal is a 1948 film noir directed by Anthony Mann and with cinematography by John Alton.

Plot

Prisoner Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe), framed by his associates, vows revenge when he is released.
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