Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March , â€" April , ) was an American
actress.She appeared in feature films from to , winning the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (), and
received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty () and
Dead End (). Trevor was billed first for Stagecoach (); her profile
was higher than John Wayne at the time.Trevor was born in Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant
tailor (of French birth but German ancestry), and his wife, Benjamina
("Betty"), who was of Irish birth. She was raised in New York City
and, from , in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth
was misreported as , a rare instance of an actress actually being
younger than her given age, which is why her age at the time of her
death was initially given as , not .
actress.She appeared in feature films from to , winning the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (), and
received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty () and
Dead End (). Trevor was billed first for Stagecoach (); her profile
was higher than John Wayne at the time.Trevor was born in Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant
tailor (of French birth but German ancestry), and his wife, Benjamina
("Betty"), who was of Irish birth. She was raised in New York City
and, from , in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth
was misreported as , a rare instance of an actress actually being
younger than her given age, which is why her age at the time of her
death was initially given as , not .
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