Claire Trevor Net Worth is
$20 Million

Mini Biography

Claire Trevor was created Claire Wemlinger in the Bensonhurst portion of Brooklyn, NY, the just kid of Fifth Avenue merchant-tailor Noel Wemlinger, an immigrant Frenchman from Paris who shed his business through the Despair, and his Belfast-born wife Betty. Trevor’s curiosity about acting started when she was 11 years of age. She attended senior high school in Mamaroneck, NY. After beginning classes at Columbia School, she spent half a year on the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, also in NY. Her adult performing experience started in the past due 1920s in a number of share productions. Her professional stage debut was included with Robert Henderson’s Repertory Players in Ann Arbor, MI, in 1930. That same yr she authorized with Warner Bros. Not really too much from her house haunts was Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, the final and greatest of the first sound procedure studios, which have been obtained by Warner Bros. in 1925 to be Vitaphone. Trevor made an appearance in several from the almost 2000 pants cranked out from the studio room between 1926 and 1930. After that she was delivered west to accomplish ten weeks of share productions with additional agreement players in St. Louis. In 1931 she do summer stock using the Hampton Players in Southampton, Long Isle. Finally, she debuted on Broadway in 1932 in “Whistling at night”. She moved to the big screen, debuting in the western Existence in the Natural (1933). There will be three even more movies (yet another traditional western) that yr and six or even more through the 1930s. Though Trevor have been typed playing weapon molls and hard-case ladies of the globe, she shown her already substantial flexibility in these early movies, often playing proficient, take-charge professional ladies aswell as “shady” women. There is a disappointed-pout-vulnerability in her encounter and that popular somewhat New York-burred tone of voice that damaged with just a little cry when heightened by feelings that quickly exposed a unique and delicate performer. A lot of her early movies had been “B” potboilers, but she caused Spencer Tracy on many events, notably Dante’s Inferno (1935). Hollywood finally required see of her skills by nominating her for any Best Supporting Celebrity Oscar on her behalf standout overall performance as an excellent girl elevated in the slums who’s compelled by poverty to carefully turn to prostitution in Inactive End (1937), contrary Humphrey Bogart. That calendar year she did the air drama “Big City” with Edward G. Robinson, after that teamed with he and Bogart once again for the somewhat hokey but engaging The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). Movie director John Ford tapped her for his first big audio traditional western, Stagecoach (1939), the film that produced a superstar of John Wayne. All her skills to bring intricacy to a personality demonstrated in her kicked-around dance hall gal “Dallas”, among the great early feminine assignments. She and Wayne had been electric, plus they had been matched in three even more movies during their professions. In the 1940s Trevor began appearing in the genre that brought her to true stardom: “film noir”. She were only available in a big method as killer Ruth Dillon in Road of Opportunity (1942) with Burgess Meredith. She was similarly convincing as the more technical but non-etheless two-faced Mrs. Grayle in the Philip Marlowe automobile Murder, My Lovely (1944). Nevertheless, she was something completely different and quite amazing as washed-up, boozy nightclub vocalist Gaye Dawn in Crucial Largo (1948), that she earned an Academy Honor, again dealing with Bogart and Robinson. The film hangs on her behalf wrenching performance throughout a pathetic rendition from the torch music “Moanin’ Low”, sung in humiliation to get a desperately needed drink. There have been more quality films and yet another Academy nomination (The Large as well as the Mighty (1954)) in to the 1950s, but Trevor was also performing stage and tv. She was thinking about live Television and made an appearance on several popular shows from the middle-1950s. She earned an Emmy for Greatest Live Television Efficiency by an Celebrity as the flighty wife of Fredric March in NBC’s Makers’ Display: Dodsworth (1956). She alternated her profession among film, stage and Television tasks. As she aged she quickly transitioned into “recognized matron” and mom roles, among her most uncommon ones getting the murderous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Children (1959), a notoriously gun-blasting bout of the notorious gun-blasting series. Her last film function was as Sally Field’s mom in Kiss Me Goodbye (1982). Trevor and her third hubby, manufacturer Milton H. Bren, acquired long been citizens of tony Newport Seaside, CA, to that they came back when she finally retired from display screen work. Nevertheless, she do maintain a dynamic curiosity about stage function, and became from the College of Arts on the School of California-Irvine. She and her hubby added some $10 million to help expand its advancement for the visible and executing arts (that included three endowed professorships). After her transferring in Apr 2000 at 90 years, the School renamed the institution The Claire Trevor College from the Arts. Her existence over the UCI campus is within more than heart alone–her Oscar for “Essential Largo” stands within an exterior glass screen on watch in the school’s Arts Plaza complicated.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Claire Trevor
Died	April 8, 2000, Newport Beach, California, United States
Height	1.6 m
Profession	Actor
Nationality	American
Spouse	Milton H. Bren, Cylos William Dunsmoore, Clark Andrews
Children	Charles Cylos Dunsmoore
Parents	Noel Wemlinger, Benjamina Wemlinger
Awards	Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Single Performance
Movies	Stagecoach, Key Largo, Murder, My Sweet, Dead End, Born to Kill, The High and the Mighty, The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Raw Deal, Dark Command, How to Murder Your Wife, Allegheny Uprising, Two Weeks in Another Town, Best of the Badmen, The Desperadoes, Man Without a Star, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Baby Take a Bow, The Stranger Wore a Gun, Life in the Raw, Marjorie Morningstar, Street of Chance, Kiss Me Goodbye, The Velvet Touch, Hard, Fast and Beautiful, The Babe Ruth Story, The Mountain, The Woman of the Town, Borderline, Crack-Up, The Cape Town Affair, Johnny Angel, Lucy Gallant, I Stole a Million, The Adventures of Martin Eden, Black Sheep, Hoodlum Empire, Human Cargo, Five of a Kind, 15 Maiden Lane, My Man and I, One Mile from Heaven, The Mad Game, The Lucky Stiff, The Bachelor's Daughters, Big Town Girl, Time Out for Romance, To Mary - with Love, Spring Tonic, Stop, You're Killing Me, Jimmy and Sally, Song and Dance Man