Post by timshelboy on Jan 8, 2023 20:15:26 GMT
Spent "half a lifetime as molls, broads, floozies, showgirls and whores. For 25 years (1933-58) if there was a saloon in town, the odds were good Claire Trevor would have a hand in running it" Quinlans Film stars.
She started - and stayed in- Bs for most of the 30s - at Fox, although in leads right from the get go. A few As in support included Shirley Temple's mum in BABY TAKE A BOW, DANTES INFERO (dreadful) with Spencer Tracy and TO MARY WITH LOVE supporting Myrna Loy. typical of her movies was
The one that mattered was DEAD END - a minute part on paper as the ex girfriend of Bogart, now a hooker. But she made the part seem bigger than it was and copped a supporting oscar nom.
She supported Loretta Young in SECOND HONEYMOON then completed her contract.
At Warners she got to tussle with Edward G Robinson and George Raft
Then STAGECOACH bumped her stock even further
with Wayne
and stayed out West with him for ALLEGHENY UPRISING and the rather better DARK COMMAND.
She bounced from supporting the Dionne Quintuplets
to supporting Gable & Turner in HONKY TONK
She mixed adventure (THE ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN), more westerns (THE DESPERADOES) and dipped a toe in Noirish waters with STREET OF CHANCE and CROSSROADS, with William Powell.
This one gave her a rare instance of top billing.
She embraced Noir in fulsome fashion in FAREWELL MY LOVELY/MURDER MY SWEET, as the duplicitous Velma
JOHNNY ANGEL and CRACKUP added to a fast growing genre
A nice change of pace was this one about shopgirls snaring millionaires Gail Russell, a newbie, got top billing though....
One of her best movies was BORN TO KILL aka LADY OF DECEIT, as a flint hearted dame who meets her match in Lawrence Tierney
We had favourite support oscar winners polls on both this and the old board and Claire Trevor aced both with her turn in KEY LARGO as EGR's dipso moll.
Here she is croaking her way through Moanin Low
Sadly the oscar did not yield better parts and she supported Rosalind Russell in THE VELVET TOUCH and Dorothy Lamour in THE LUCKY STIFF.
Her early 50s movies not an interesting bunch, MY MAN AND I the best.
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY saw her bag another nomination in this grand daddy of airborne disaster flics+poster+2.jpg)
MAN WITHOUT A STAR was another good one - propping up the saloon bar with Kirk Douglas
A turn as Natalie Woods mother in MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR wwas the last of that star run.
She took a few years off and came back for a few 60s movies , best of all as EG Robinson's "lawful wedded nightmare" in TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN.
THE STRIPPER gave her a good part as Joanne Woodward's old friend, but sadly not too many takers for it.
She got the old Thelma Ritter role in a remake of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
After a long gap her cinematic swansong was in KISS ME GOODBYE (82)
Sources welcome for a TV DODSWORTH she did with Fredric March in 1958.
She started - and stayed in- Bs for most of the 30s - at Fox, although in leads right from the get go. A few As in support included Shirley Temple's mum in BABY TAKE A BOW, DANTES INFERO (dreadful) with Spencer Tracy and TO MARY WITH LOVE supporting Myrna Loy. typical of her movies was
The one that mattered was DEAD END - a minute part on paper as the ex girfriend of Bogart, now a hooker. But she made the part seem bigger than it was and copped a supporting oscar nom.
She supported Loretta Young in SECOND HONEYMOON then completed her contract.
At Warners she got to tussle with Edward G Robinson and George Raft
Then STAGECOACH bumped her stock even further
with Wayne
and stayed out West with him for ALLEGHENY UPRISING and the rather better DARK COMMAND.
She bounced from supporting the Dionne Quintuplets
to supporting Gable & Turner in HONKY TONKShe mixed adventure (THE ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN), more westerns (THE DESPERADOES) and dipped a toe in Noirish waters with STREET OF CHANCE and CROSSROADS, with William Powell.
This one gave her a rare instance of top billing.
She embraced Noir in fulsome fashion in FAREWELL MY LOVELY/MURDER MY SWEET, as the duplicitous Velma
JOHNNY ANGEL and CRACKUP added to a fast growing genreA nice change of pace was this one about shopgirls snaring millionaires Gail Russell, a newbie, got top billing though....
One of her best movies was BORN TO KILL aka LADY OF DECEIT, as a flint hearted dame who meets her match in Lawrence Tierney
We had favourite support oscar winners polls on both this and the old board and Claire Trevor aced both with her turn in KEY LARGO as EGR's dipso moll.
Here she is croaking her way through Moanin Low
Sadly the oscar did not yield better parts and she supported Rosalind Russell in THE VELVET TOUCH and Dorothy Lamour in THE LUCKY STIFF.
Her early 50s movies not an interesting bunch, MY MAN AND I the best.
THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY saw her bag another nomination in this grand daddy of airborne disaster flics
MAN WITHOUT A STAR was another good one - propping up the saloon bar with Kirk Douglas
A turn as Natalie Woods mother in MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR wwas the last of that star run.
She took a few years off and came back for a few 60s movies , best of all as EG Robinson's "lawful wedded nightmare" in TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN.
THE STRIPPER gave her a good part as Joanne Woodward's old friend, but sadly not too many takers for it.
She got the old Thelma Ritter role in a remake of PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET
After a long gap her cinematic swansong was in KISS ME GOODBYE (82)
Sources welcome for a TV DODSWORTH she did with Fredric March in 1958.
