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She was born Claire Wemlinger in in New York of a French father and Northern Irish mother.
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She was born Claire Wemlinger in in New York of a French father and Northern Irish mother.
When her father lost his clothing business during the Great Depression, she went out to work to help the family. Later she managed to attend Columbia University and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, before starting her acting career in stock in the late 1920s. By 1932, she had starred on Broadway opposite Edward Arnold in The Party's Over, which brought her to the attention of 20th Century Fox, who gave her a five-year contract in 1933.
At Fox, she played Shirley Temple's mother in Baby Takes A Bow (1934), supported Spencer Tracy in Dante's Inferno (1935), and made six films directed by veteran craftsman Allan Dwan, but they were mostly inconsequential programmers. She left Fox hoping for better roles and immediately landed one from Samuel Goldwyn in William Wyler's Dead End (1937) as hoodlum Humphrey Bogart's ex-girlfriend, reduced to streetwalking and ravaged by illness. Although she is barely on screen for five minutes, in a memorable seriers of close-ups, she made enough impact to be nominated for a supporting actress Oscar. "I'm tired. I'm sick," she tells Bogart. "Can you see it? Look at me good. You've been looking at me like I used to be."
Dead End set her off on a series of roles as wanton women: gangsters' molls in thrillers and saloon bar gals in westerns. In The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse (1938), she played Bogart's moll who betrays him, and in I Stole a Million (1939), she helps her mobster husband George Raft. However, Trevor had to wait for the rise of 1940s film noir to become one of the leading women of the genre. With her long, blonde hair whisked up above the broad-shouldered gowns and a seen-it-all look in her eyes, she was able to hit her stride.
In Street of Chance (1942), she misleads amnesiac Burgess Meredith by telling him he is wanted for murder, though she is the real killer. As the sexy, two-faced Mrs Grayle in Edward Dmytryk's Murder My Sweet (1944), she tells Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell), "You shouldn't kiss a girl when you're wearing a gun. It leaves a bruise." In Born to Kill (1947), she is "a silken savage," a mercenary divorcee with a fatal attraction for a man who has already killed two people. "You're strength, excitement and depravity," she is told. Anthony Mann's Raw Deal (1948) was one of the rare noir movies in which the narration was supplied by a woman, in this case Trevor as the betrayed girlfriend of a racketeer.
In the same year, in Key Largo, for which she won an Oscar for best supporting actress, Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the fading alcoholic mistress of sadistic gangster Johnny Rocco (Edward G Robinson). "She's a lush," says Robinson's fat henchman (Thomas Gomez). "After she bends the elbow a few times, she begins to see things - rats, roaches, bats, you know. A sock in the kisser is the only thing that will bring her out of it." Pathetically singing Moanin' Low to please Rocco, Trevor revealed the character's touching dependence on the brute.
During the next decade, Trevor's image continued to be "strength, excitement and depravity", especially in two films of 1951: Best of the Badmen as Robert Preston's angry and disillusioned wife, and Hard, Fast and Beautiful as the greedy ambitious tennis mother determined to live off her daughter's earnings. In 1954, she gained another Oscar nomination for The High and the Mighty (1954), this time as a loose woman among imperilled airline passengers. Ironically, Charles, her only child by the second of her three marriages died in an air crash in 1978.
In Vincente Minnelli's Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) as Edward G Robinson's "worn out, dry, old hag" of a wife, she rants and raves, drinks and smokes. "Don't take an overdose," Robinson tells her. "You know how ill it makes me." Like most of her later roles, such as the man-hating harridan in How To Murder Your Wife (1965), it was a reference to many of the parts she had played in her black-and-white movie past.
She not only enjoyed a Hollywood career spanning five decades, but performed in hundreds of radio and television shows - including an Emmy-winning role in Dodsworth. She retired from acting in 1987 and became a patron of the arts.
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Trevor married Clark Andrews, director of her radio show, in 1938, but they divorced four years later. Her second marriage, in 1943, to Navy lieutenant Cylos William Dunsmore, produced her only child, son Charles. The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. The next year, Trevor married Milton Bren, a film producer with two sons from a previous marriage, and moved to Newport Beach, California.
In 1978, Trevor's son Charles died in the crash of PSA Flight 182, followed by the death of her husband Milton from a brain tumor in 1979. Devastated by these losses, she returned to Manhattan for some years, living in a Fifth Avenue apartment and taking a few acting roles amid a busy social life. She eventually returned to California, where she remained for the rest of her life, becoming a generous supporter of the arts.