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Claire is a little shy with new people. She posed nicely for me, but I'm pretty sure she was thinking, "Maybe if I ignore her she'll go away." ;)
German cigarette card by Ross Verlag in the 'Künstler im Film' series for Zigarettenfabrik Monopol, Dresden, Serie 1, image 164 (of 200). Photo: 20th Century Fox.
American actress Claire Trevor (1910-2000) appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982. She often played the hard-boiled blonde or another type of shady lady. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in Dead End (1937) and The High and the Mighty (1954). But she is now best known for the classic Western Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne.
Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in 1910 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She was the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor, and his wife, Benjamina ("Betty"). Claire was raised in New York City and, from 1923, in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth was misreported as 1909, 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 91, not 90. After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and six months at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1930, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not far from her home in Brooklyn was Vitagraph Studios, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. and had become Vitaphone in 1925. Trevor appeared in several of the nearly 2000 shorts cranked out by the studio between 1926 and 1930. She also performed in summer stock theatre. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in 'Whistling in the Dark'. The next year, she made her film debut with a leading role in the Western Life in the Raw (Louis King, 1933) opposite George O'Brien. From 1933 to 1938, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the second lead actress after top-billed Sylvia Sidney in the crime drama Dead End (William Wyler, 1937), with Humphrey Bogart. Her role as a slum girl forced by poverty into prostitution led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was well established as a solid leading lady now. Her most memorable performance during this period was the Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) with John Wayne in his breakthrough role. William McPeak at IMDb: " All her abilities to bring complexity to a character showed in her kicked-around dance hall girl "Dallas", one of the great early female roles. She and Wayne were electric, and they were paired in three more films during their careers." From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series 'Big Town' while continuing to make films.
In the early 1940s, Claire Trevor was a regular on 'The Old Gold Don Ameche Show' on the NBC Red Radio Network, starring with Ameche in presentations of plays by Mark Hellinger. Two of Trevor's most memorable roles were in the Film Noirs Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944) opposite Dick Powell, and Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947) with Lawrence Tierney. In Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. For that role, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in the disaster film The High and the Mighty (William A. Wellman, 1954) with John Wayne. In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role as the flighty wife of Fredric March in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth (Alex Segal, 1956). As she aged she easily transitioned into 'distinguished matron' and mother roles, one of her most unusual ones being the murderous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959), a notoriously gun-blasting episode of the notorious gun-blasting series. Her appearances became very rare after the mid-1960s. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in her final film, the romantic comedy Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan, 1982). Her final screen role was for the TV film, Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties (1987). Trevor made a guest appearance at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. 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. Claire Trevor died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, California, in 2000, at the age of 90. She was survived by her two stepsons and extended family. For her contribution to the film industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.
Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
We've posted two versions of this image simply because Jane and I can't decide which one we like the best. Claire was an absolute dream to photograph, so please expect some more from the session over the coming days.
Lighting : Natural light on right shoulder. On the left side Jane held a 430EX Speedlite above head height and aimed it at the hedgerow. To the front of Claire, Brandon (Claire's husband) aimed another 430 fitted with a warming gel. This was then diffused by a shoot through umbrella.
I fancied a night out so I asked Claire if she wanted to join me.
So what do you do when you want to go out? well we put the usual candidates out there, you know the ones! clubs and gay bars. but decided to hit the real world. so I took Claire and her partner Tracy to one of my many local pubs and we had such a good time. can't wait to do it again soon.
Last Sunday I took my friend Claire out for a photoshoot in the January sun. I personally think they came out ok, would love to get your take on these though... since I'm really new to photographing people. So please criticize and comment as hard as you can!
They're all shot with the Canon 400D, EF 50mm 1.8 and with natural light.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 809. Photo: Fox.
American actress Claire Trevor (1910-2000) appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982. She often played the hard-boiled blonde or another type of shady lady. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in Dead End (1937) and The High and the Mighty (1954). But she is now best known for the classic Western Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne.
Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in 1910 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She was the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor, and his wife, Benjamina ("Betty"). Claire was raised in New York City and, from 1923, in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth was misreported as 1909, 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 91, not 90. After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and six months at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1930, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not far from her home in Brooklyn was Vitagraph Studios, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. and had become Vitaphone in 1925. Trevor appeared in several of the nearly 2000 shorts cranked out by the studio between 1926 and 1930. She also performed in summer stock theatre. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in 'Whistling in the Dark'. The next year, she made her film debut with a leading role in the Western Life in the Raw (Louis King, 1933) opposite George O'Brien. From 1933 to 1938, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the second lead actress after top-billed Sylvia Sidney in the crime drama Dead End (William Wyler, 1937), with Humphrey Bogart. Her role as a slum girl forced by poverty into prostitution led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was well established as a solid leading lady now. Her most memorable performance during this period was the Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) with John Wayne in his breakthrough role. William McPeak at IMDb: " All her abilities to bring complexity to a character showed in her kicked-around dance hall girl "Dallas", one of the great early female roles. She and Wayne were electric, and they were paired in three more films during their careers." From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series 'Big Town' while continuing to make films.
In the early 1940s, Claire Trevor was a regular on 'The Old Gold Don Ameche Show' on the NBC Red Radio Network, starring with Ameche in presentations of plays by Mark Hellinger. Two of Trevor's most memorable roles were in the Film Noirs Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944) opposite Dick Powell, and Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947) with Lawrence Tierney. In Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. For that role, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in the disaster film The High and the Mighty (William A. Wellman, 1954) with John Wayne. In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role as the flighty wife of Fredric March in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth (Alex Segal, 1956). As she aged she easily transitioned into 'distinguished matron' and mother roles, one of her most unusual ones being the murderous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959), a notoriously gun-blasting episode of the notorious gun-blasting series. Her appearances became very rare after the mid-1960s. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in her final film, the romantic comedy Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan, 1982). Her final screen role was for the TV film, Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties (1987). Trevor made a guest appearance at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. 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. Claire Trevor died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, California, in 2000, at the age of 90. She was survived by her two stepsons and extended family. For her contribution to the film industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.
Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Claire Smith
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34500
Call Number: LC-B2- 5776-10
Some new pieces for Claire's wardrobe. Skirt and shawl by Period Threads. Arm warmers and top by Sisen
CLAIRE A
Bosphorus Straight
AMBARLI >>>> POTI
IMO: 9379387 - Built 2008
Container Ship - 184.01m X 24.7m
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 1361/1, 1927-1928.
Elegant German actress Claire Rommer (1904 - 1996) appeared in about 50 German film productions during the 1920s and the early 1930s. Her successful career suddenly ended with the seizure of power by the Nazis.
Esse é o patinho feio dessa coleção. É uma combinação bem inusitada (amarelo e cinza), que eu tenho chamado de unhas de zumbi. Mesmo assim é muito legal. Lavo as mãos e as unhas ficam todas cinzinhas de frio. Fico um tempo com as mãos no bolso e elas ficam todas amarelinhas. E na maior parte do tempo elas ficam assim como na foto.