Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor

1910-03-08 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 74 Credits

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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,...

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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

2009

as Self (archive footage)

7.5
Acting

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008

as Self

8.5
Acting

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....

Breaking Home Ties

Breaking Home Ties

1987

as Grace Porter

6.5
Acting

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the ...

Going Hollywood: The '30s

Going Hollywood: The '30s

1984

as (archive footage)

10.0
Acting

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...

Kiss Me Goodbye

Kiss Me Goodbye

1982

as Charlotte

5.7
Acting

Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But so...

The Cape Town Affair

The Cape Town Affair

1967

as Sam Williams

3.5
Acting

South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film...

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife

1965

as Edna

6.3
Acting

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse...

The Stripper

The Stripper

1963

as Helen Baird

4.7
Acting

An aging former movie starlet whose Hollywood career went nowhere, now reduced to dancing with a third-rate touring show, finds herself stranded in a ...

Two Weeks in Another Town

Two Weeks in Another Town

1962

as Clara Kruger

5.9
Acting

After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and profess...

Marjorie Morningstar

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

as Rose Morgenstern

6.2
Acting

While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at...

The Mountain

The Mountain

1956

as Marie

6.9
Acting

Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash ...

Lucy Gallant

Lucy Gallant

1955

as Lady MacBeth

7.0
Acting

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star

1955

as Idonee

6.5
Acting

A wandering cowboy gets caught up in a range war.

A Star Is Born World Premiere

1954

as Self

8.0
Acting

Live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Acade...

The High and the Mighty

The High and the Mighty

1954

as May Holst

5.9
Acting

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...

The Stranger Wore a Gun

The Stranger Wore a Gun

1953

as Josie Sullivan

5.4
Acting

Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs int...

Stop, You're Killing Me

Stop, You're Killing Me

1952

as Nora Marko

5.0
Acting

With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".

My Man and I

My Man and I

1952

as Mrs. Elena Ames

6.8
Acting

In California, a Mexican-American laborer is falsely accused of shooting the racist farmer he was working for after the farmer stiffed him with a bad ...

Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire

1952

as Connie Williams

6.1
Acting

It's a deadly play for power when a Mafia chieftain's top gun goes straight and threatens to testify against the big boss and his cruel, nationwide ne...

Best of the Badmen

Best of the Badmen

1951

as Lily

6.5
Acting

After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegi...

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

Hard, Fast and Beautiful

1951

as Millie Farley

5.8
Acting

When most people look at Florence Farley, they see a pretty teenager. But when Milly Farley looks at her daughter she sees something else: a tennis pr...

Borderline

Borderline

1950

as Madeleine Haley

5.4
Acting

The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can't pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many ...

The Lucky Stiff

The Lucky Stiff

1949

as Marguerite Seaton

4.8
Acting

A lawyer spooks gangsters by faking a framed singer's electrocution.

The Babe Ruth Story

The Babe Ruth Story

1948

as Claire Hodgson Ruth

5.8
Acting

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Key Largo

Key Largo

1948

as Gaye Dawn

7.5
Acting

A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up - and ...

The Velvet Touch

The Velvet Touch

1948

as Marian Webster

6.2
Acting

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Raw Deal

Raw Deal

1948

as Pat Cameron

6.7
Acting

Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pu...

Born to Kill

Born to Kill

1947

as Helen Brent

6.7
Acting

A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.

Crack-Up

Crack-Up

1946

as Terry Cordell

5.6
Acting

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?

The Bachelor's Daughters

The Bachelor's Daughters

1946

as Cynthia Davis

6.2
Acting

A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rente...

Johnny Angel

Johnny Angel

1945

as Lilah 'Lily' Gustafson

5.9
Acting

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

1944

as Helen Grayle

7.2
Acting

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

The Woman of the Town

The Woman of the Town

1943

as Dora Hand

6.2
Acting

Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Master...

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

Good Luck, Mr. Yates

1943

as Ruth Jones

5.8
Acting

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes

1943

as Countess Maletta

5.7
Acting

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town's crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and wh...

Street of Chance

Street of Chance

1942

as Ruth Dillon

5.3
Acting

In this Cornell Woolrich thriller, a man's memory is recovered after being injured by falling construction material. Discovering a year-long lapse, he...

Crossroads

Crossroads

1942

as Michelle Allaine

5.9
Acting

A French diplomat who's recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can't remember.

The Adventures of Martin Eden

The Adventures of Martin Eden

1942

as Connie Dawson

6.0
Acting

Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

Texas

Texas

1941

as Michael 'Mike' King

6.5
Acting

Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the ...

Honky Tonk

Honky Tonk

1941

as "Gold Dust" Nelson

6.4
Acting

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right...

Dark Command

Dark Command

1940

as Miss Mary McCloud

6.3
Acting

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local ba...

Allegheny Uprising

Allegheny Uprising

1939

as Janie MacDougall

5.6
Acting

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many l...

I Stole a Million

I Stole a Million

1939

as Laura Benson

6.0
Acting

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939

as Dallas

7.6
Acting

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc...

Five of a Kind

Five of a Kind

1938

as Christine Nelson

4.2
Acting

Rival reporters compete to sign the Wyatt Quintuplets to be guests on their radio shows.

Valley of the Giants

Valley of the Giants

1938

as Lee Roberts

6.0
Acting

A lumberman takes on a sleezy corporate giant wanting to move in and do whatever it takes to drive everyone else out of business.

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

1938

as Jo Keller

7.2
Acting

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed...

Walking Down Broadway

Walking Down Broadway

1938

as Joan Bradley

5.7
Acting

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many differ...

Big Town Girl

Big Town Girl

1937

as Fay Loring

6.0
Acting

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a cro...

Second Honeymoon

Second Honeymoon

1937

as Marcia

5.8
Acting

Raoul McLish stops over in Miami Beach where he runs into his ex-wife, Vicky Benton, and her new husband Bob, a belt manufacturer. At first Bob enjoys...

Dead End

Dead End

1937

as Francey

7.0
Acting

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of his...

One Mile from Heaven

One Mile from Heaven

1937

as Lucy 'Tex' Warren

6.7
Acting

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

King of Gamblers

King of Gamblers

1937

as Dixie Moore

7.0
Acting

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...

Time Out for Romance

Time Out for Romance

1937

as Barbara Blanchard

5.6
Acting

A girl escapes marriage and hitchhikes with a young man in whose car a jewel thief has planted his loot.

Career Woman

Career Woman

1936

as Carroll Aiken

6.0
Acting

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend accus...

15 Maiden Lane

15 Maiden Lane

1936

as Jane Martin

6.0
Acting

Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.

Star for a Night

Star for a Night

1936

as Nina Lind

6.0
Acting

Blind Mrs. Lind comes to American to visit her three children whom she thinks are successful.

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

1936

1.0
Acting

Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being ...

To Mary - with Love

To Mary - with Love

1936

as Kitty Brant

4.5
Acting

Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...

Human Cargo

Human Cargo

1936

as Bonnie Brewster

6.0
Acting

Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to...

Song and Dance Man

Song and Dance Man

1936

as Julia Carroll

Acting

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

My Marriage

My Marriage

1936

as Carol Barton

5.0
Acting

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his...

Navy Wife

Navy Wife

1935

as Vicky Blake

5.0
Acting

A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter.

Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno

1935

as Elizabeth "Betty" McWade Carter

6.2
Acting

A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.

Black Sheep

Black Sheep

1935

as Janette Foster

7.0
Acting

On an ocean liner crossing a professional gambler comes to the aid of a naive young man victimized by a jewel thief. The young man turns out to be his...

Spring Tonic

Spring Tonic

1935

as Betty Ingals

5.3
Acting

Betty Ingals walks out on her fiancé in search of adventure. She gets more than she bargained for when she stumbles upon a gang of bootleggers.

Elinor Norton

Elinor Norton

1934

as Elinor Norton

6.0
Acting

A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her hus...

Baby Take a Bow

Baby Take a Bow

1934

as Kay Ellison

5.6
Acting

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convi...

Wild Gold

Wild Gold

1934

as Jerry Jordan

5.0
Acting

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevad...

Hold That Girl

Hold That Girl

1934

as Tonie Bellamy

Acting

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses a...

Jimmy and Sally

Jimmy and Sally

1933

as Sally Johnson

4.0
Acting

Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart S...

The Mad Game

The Mad Game

1933

as Jane Lee

Acting

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the jud...

The Last Trail

The Last Trail

1933

as Patricia Carter

Acting

Based on a Zane Grey story, The Last Trail stars virile cowboy hero George O'Brien in a largely anti-heroic role. Escaping from a posse, the "good bad...

Life in the Raw

Life in the Raw

1933

as Judy Halloway

Acting

Adventure ensues as Judy Halloway arrives in Arizona to visit her brother, Tom.