Number 36: Claire Trevor as Gaye Dawn in "Key Largo" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

Someplace, Claire Trevor is not very happy about my choice to re-rank the winners in this class given that she went down a very good twenty locations – but this does not mean that my appreciation for her fantastic switch as Gaye Dawn, the mistress of gangster Johnny Rocky in Important Largo, cooled down. My cause for rating her decrease this time is that I think the part by itself is rather disappointing and doesn’t permit Claire Trevor to do any more than continually beg for a consume she will never get – but I nevertheless get pleasure from her function extremely considerably and believe that she received as significantly out of this skinny part as humanly achievable.

The very best aspect of this functionality is that Claire Trevor was ready to hold Gaye Dawn on the edge for the entire run of the movie – there is never a true second of piece in her, she is often shaking, always desperate, always humiliated. It is a character that is really easy to sympathize with but Claire Trevor fortunately never ever plays for the camera but as an alternative believably demonstrates how considerably she equally loves and hates Johnny.

Claire Trevor belongs to the listing of winners in this classification who are the greatest factor about their films – Important Largo is a often intriguing but ultimately missing drama which characteristics rather normal function from the male gamers and an amazingly awkward and unskilled overall performance from Lauren Bacall.

As pointed out previously, Claire Trevor largely will get to show each and every kind of human misery in her component – whilst this does not really end result in a really created character or functionality it still is scene-stealing on a extremely large level and Claire Trevor also gives the most energetic and effective moments of Essential Largo. Her huge ‘Oscar-scene’, when Johnny forces her to sing for a drink, is an unforgettable gripping and also uncomfortable scene – like the other characters in the motion picture, you cannot aid but really feel embarrassed for this girl who presents up all her dignity for a bit of liquor. It is a heartbreaking and chilling second that belongs to the ideal this group has to supply.

When Gaye decides to operate towards Johnny, the character loses a bit of her fascination but there is no denying that Claire Trevor leaves an unforgettable effect in a part that is the two thankless and thankful.