Profile
Claire Trevor
Actress
Female
Born
Mar 8, 1910
Hometown
Brooklyn, New York
Died
Apr 8, 2000
Death Place
Newport Beach, Ca...
Other Names
Wemlinger, Claire
Claire Trevor was an Academy Award-winning American actress. She was 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. She won the Academy… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1910
Birth
Trevor was born as Claire Wemlinger in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York in 1910 (some sources state 1909, 1911 or 1912), the only child of Noel and Betty Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor and his wife, and grew up in Larchmont, New York.
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TWENTIES
1932
22 Years Old
By 1932 she was starring on Broadway; that same year she began appearing in Brooklyn-filmed Vitaphone shorts.
Her first credited film role was in the 1933 film Life in the Raw, with her feature film debut coming that same year in Jimmy and Sally (1933), with her portraying "Sally Johnson".
In 1937, she starred with Humphrey Bogart in Dead End, which would lead to her being nominated for Best Supporting Actress.
1938
28 Years Old
Trevor married Clark Andrews, director of her radio show, in 1938, but they divorced four years later.
By 1939, she was well established as a solid "leading lady".
THIRTIES
1940
30 Years Old
She also starred opposite Wayne in Allegheny Uprising that same year, and again in 1940 in Dark Command.
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1943
33 Years Old
Her second marriage, in 1943, to Navy lieutenant Cylos William Dunsmoore produced a son, Charles. The marriage ended in divorce in 1947.
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FORTIES
1957
47 Years Old
In 1957 she won an Emmy for her role in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1987
77 Years Old
Her last film was the 1987 television movie Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties.
1998
88 Years Old
She made a special appearance at the 70th annual Academy Awards in 1998.
2000
90 Years Old
Claire Trevor died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, April 8, 2000 at the age of 90.
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