Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor ( born March 8, 1910 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York, † April 8, 2000 in Newport Beach, California; actually Claire Wemlinger ) was an American actress who primarily for her portrayal of good-hearted "fallen " women known had.

After studying acting, she began her career in the late 1920s. In 1932, she played mostly in B-movies, often Gangster brides and Saloon Girls.

Nominated three times, in 1948, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for John Huston's Key Largo, where she played the alcoholic, mistress of Edward G. Robinson. With Huston (this time as a screenwriter ) and Robinson they had in 1938 successfully in the comedy thriller The Double Life of Dr. Clitterhouse ( The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse ) by Anatole Litvak worked. Also make attention to themselves they could in which she acted alongside John Wayne in the role of Alice (in the original language version of Dallas ) in John Ford's Western Ringo ( 1939).

In the 1950s she appeared increasingly on television, what you earned an Emmy in 1956.

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