Claire Trevor

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Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger. After attending Columbia and the 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. She debuted onscreen in feature films in 1933 and soon became typecast as a gang moll, a saloon girl, or some other kind of hard-boiled, but warm-hearted floozy. Primarily in B movies, her performances in major productions showed her to be a skilled screen actress; nominated for Oscars three times, she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her work in Key Largo (1948). In the '50s she began to appear often on TV; in 1956 she won an Emmy for her performance in Dodsworth opposite Fredric March.

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1933 Jimmy and Sally

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1933 Life in the Raw

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1933 The Mad Game

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1934 Baby, Take a Bow

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1934 Hold That Girl

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1934 The Last Trail

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1934 Wild Gold

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1935 Black Sheep

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1935 Dante's Inferno

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1935 Elinor Norton

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1935 Spring Tonic

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1936 15 Maiden Lane

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1936 Career Woman

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1936 Human Cargo

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1936 My Marriage

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1936 Navy Wife

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1936 Star for a Night

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1936 The Song and Dance Man

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1936 To Mary - with Love

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1937 Big Town Girl

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1937 Dead End

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1937 King of Gamblers

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1937 One Mile from Heaven

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1937 Second Honeymoon

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1937 Time out for Romance

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1938 Five of a Kind

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1938 The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

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1938 Valley of the Giants

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1938 Walking Down Broadway

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1939 Allegheny Uprising

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1939 I Stole a Million

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1939 Stagecoach

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1940 The Dark Command

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1941 Honky Tonk

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1941 Texas

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1942 Crossroads

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1942 Street of Chance

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1942 The Adventures of Martin Eden

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1943 Good Luck, Mr. Yates

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1943 The Desperadoes

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1944 Murder, My Sweet

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1944 The Woman of the Town

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1945 Johnny Angel

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1946 Crack-Up

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1946 The Bachelor's Daughters

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1947 Born to Kill

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1948 Key Largo

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1948 Raw Deal

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1948 The Babe Ruth Story

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1948 The Velvet Touch

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1949 The Lucky Stiff

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1950 Best of the Badmen

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1950 Borderline

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1951 Hard, Fast and Beautiful

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1952 Hoodlum Empire

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1952 My Man and I

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1952 Stop, You're Killing Me

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1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun

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1954 The High and the Mighty

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1955 Lucy Gallant

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1955 Man Without a Star

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1956 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Safe Conduct

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1956 The Mountain

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1958 Marjorie Morningstar

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1959 The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys

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1961 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Crime for Mothers

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1962 Two Weeks in Another Town

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1963 The Stripper

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1965 How to Murder Your Wife

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1967 The Cape Town Affair

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1982 Kiss Me Goodbye

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1987 Breaking Home Ties

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1987 Murder, She Wrote: Witness for the Defense

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