FrameThrower · Actors · Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor
2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1944–1948
Born 8 March 1910 · Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · died 8 April 2000
Claire Trevor was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor received top billing, ahead of John Wayne, for Stagecoach (1939).
Trevor's acting career spanned more than seven decades and included successes in stage, radio, television, and film. She often played the hard-boiled blonde, and every conceivable type of 'bad girl' role.
She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 115 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1944–1948
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress1949
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1957
- Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award1981
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 115 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Claire takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 73% of their frames are night, 57% low key — the look of the work Claire takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 115 frames from Claire Trevor's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.