Claire Trevor

An expert in the roles of “a woman of arms but with a heart of gold”, Claire has made more than 60 films, including her intrepid Dallas ofStagecoach (1939), the big-hearted prostitute in Cul-de -sac (1937) and a pilot’s girl in The High and the Mighty (1954). She worked with some of the most important artists and directors of the time: Humphrey Bogart , Spencer Tracy , Lauren Bacall , John Wayne , William Wyler , William A. Wellman , John Huston or John Ford .

Born Claire Wemlinger in 1909 on Long Island, she dropped out of Columbia to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was a constant worker that life hit hard in 1979, when her only son Charles died in a plane crash. A year later she did it to her husband, Milton Bren, a Hollywood producer, because of a brain tumor. In 1999, the new student theater of the School of the Arts of the University of California, was inaugurated with her name.