Claire Trevor - The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir

Claire Trevor (1910-2000) is best remembered as the alluring blonde femme fatale in such iconic noir films as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Raw Deal (1948). Yet she was a versatile performer who brought rare emotional depth to her art. She was effective in a range of diverse roles, from an outcast prostitute in John Ford's classic Stagecoach (1939) to the ambitious tennis mother in Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) to the embittered wife of a landowner in William Wellman's overlooked gem My Man and I (1952). Nominated for three Oscars, she deservedly won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Gaye Dawn, a gangster's broken-down moll in Key Largo (1948). The author covers her life and career in detail, recognizing her as one of the finest actresses of her generation.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

¿1.¿Lady-in-Waiting

¿2.¿Broadway Sojourn

¿3.¿Hollywood "Vacation"

¿4.¿B-Movie Queen

¿5.¿Sophisticated Lady

¿6.¿The Queen Escapes from the "B" Hive

¿7.¿Radio Interlude

¿8.¿Stagecoach

¿9.¿"I'm not the Western type"

10.¿The War Years: Street of Chance

11.¿Femme Fatale

12.¿Queen of Noir

13.¿"Come on, Lady Bountiful!"

14.¿Hard, Fast and Beautiful

15.¿The High and the Mighty

16.¿The Small Screen

17.¿The Sixties

18.¿Swansong

Epilogue

Appendix: Appearances

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Derek Sculthorpe, an archives assistant and researcher, has written plays, short stories and articles. He lives in Leeds, Yorkshire.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Derek Sculthorpe, Sculthorpe Derek
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.05.2018
• EAN: 9781476671932
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-7193-2
• Seiten: 198
• Abmessung: 178 mm x 254 mm x 10 mm
• Gewicht: 345 g
• Illustration: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, noir, oscar bio, hollywood biography