This blonde, smoky-voiced actress from the New York stage made forays to her native Brooklyn to appear in Vitaphone shorts in the early 1930s before making her feature film debut in 1933. Claire Trevor typically toiled as a hardened, but sympathetic victim or gun moll in a host of B productions until she gained recognition and an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her fine performance as gangster Humphrey Bogart's prostitute girlfriend in "Dead End" (1937). She offered a variation on the role as the classic, gold-hearted saloon gal in John Ford's landmark Western
Began career stage in stock and on Broadway in the late 1920s
First film appearance in Vitaphone shorts filmed in Brooklyn
Signed to a contract by Warner Bros.; acted in a series of short films; then spent 10 weeks in St Louis performing on stage with other contract players
