Anne Revere

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Anne Revere
from the Gentleman's Agreement trailer (1947)
Born	June 25, 1903(1903-06-25) New York City, New York, USA
Died	December 18, 1990 (aged 87) Locust Valley, New York, USA
Years active	1934 - 1975
Spouse(s)	Samuel Rosen (m. 1935)
Awards won Academy Awards Best Supporting Actress 1945 National Velvet Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play 1960 Toys in the Attic

Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18, 1990) was an Academy Award- and Tony Award-winning American stage and film actress.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Private life 2 Filmography 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Born in New York, New York, Revere was a direct descendant of American Revolution figure Paul Revere. She made her Broadway acting debut in 1931 in The Great Barrington and followed this success with a role in Double Door.

Career

She made her film debut in the 1934 film version of the latter, and she quickly established herself as a character actress, specialising in worldly wise but frequently sharp tongued supporting roles.

She received Oscar nominations as Best Supporting Actress for her world-weary yet sympathetic roles as a blue-class working mother in three roles in the 1940s - as the mother of Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944) for which she won the award as a woman who had swum the English Channel as a teenager, and as the mother of Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947). She had previously worked with Peck on the 1944 film, The Keys of the Kingdom, in which she appeared as a Protestant missionary.

Her last role of note was as the mother of Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951), before her career was destroyed by the McCarthy-era witchhunts. Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Revere pleaded the Fifth Amendment and she was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses and her career ruined.

For the rest of her life she maintained that the unsigned copy of a Communist Party registration card that was used as evidence of her party membership was a fake. Her role as Montgomery Clift's mother in A Place in the Sun was edited out of the final print of the film because of the "Red" scare.

Private life

With her husband, the playwright and director Samuel Rosen, Revere moved to New York where the couple ran an acting school, and Revere returned to Broadway. She won a Tony Award in 1961 for her role in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic. Still an outsider in Hollywood, Revere was not considered for the film version which was played by Wendy Hiller.

In her later years, she appeared in roles in television before her death from pneumonia in Locust Valley, New York. Among her soap opera roles were roles on The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow, and Ryan's Hope.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1934	Double Door	Caroline Van Brett
1940	The Howards of Virginia	Mrs. Betsy Norton
	One Crowded Night	Mae Andrews
1941	Design for Scandal	Nettie, Porter's Maid	uncredited
	Remember the Day	Miss Nadine Price
	H. M. Pulham, Esq.	Miss Redfern, John's Secretary	uncredited
	The Flame of New Orleans	Giraud's Sister
	Men of Boys Town	Mrs. Fenely
	The Devil Commands	Mrs. Walters
1942	Star Spangled Rhythm	Sarah, Mr. DeSoto's Secretary	uncredited
	The Gay Sisters	Miss Ida Orner
	Are Husbands Necessary?	Anna
	The Falcon Takes Over	Jessie Florian	uncredited
	Meet the Stewarts	Geraldine Stewart
1943	The Song of Bernadette	Louise Soubirous	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Old Acquaintance	Belle Carter
	Shantytown	Mrs. Gorty
	The Meanest Man in the World	Kitty Crockett, Clark's Secretary
1944	The Thin Man Goes Home	Crazy Mary
	The Keys of the Kingdom	Agnes Fiske
	National Velvet	Mrs. Brown	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Sunday Dinner for a Soldier	Agatha Butterfield
	Rainbow Island	Queen Okalana
	Standing Room Only	Major Harriet Cromwell
1945	Fallen Angel	Clara Mills
	Don Juan Quilligan	Mrs. Cora Rostigaff
1946	Dragonwyck	Abigail Wells
1947	Gentleman's Agreement	Mrs. Green	Nominated - Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
	Forever Amber	Mother Red Cap
	Body and Soul	Anna Davis
	Carnival in Costa Rica	Mama Elsa Molina
	The Shocking Miss Pilgrim	Alice Pritchard
1948	Deep Waters	Mary McKay
	Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!	Judith Dominy
	Secret Beyond the Door	Caroline Lamphere
1949	You're My Everything	Aunt Jane
1950	Screen Actors	Herself	uncredited
1951	A Place in the Sun	Hannah Eastman	Part cut
	The Great Missouri Raid	Mrs. Samuels
1970	Macho Callahan	Crystal
	Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon	Miss Farber
1976	Birch Interval	Mrs. Tanner

References

External links

• Anne Revere at Find A Grave
• Anne Revere at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Mary Astor (1941) · Teresa Wright (1942) · Katina Paxinou (1943) · Ethel Barrymore (1944) · Anne Revere (1945) · Anne Baxter (1946) · Celeste Holm (1947) · Claire Trevor (1948) · Mercedes McCambridge (1949) · Josephine Hull (1950) · Kim Hunter (1951) · Gloria Grahame (1952) · Donna Reed (1953) · Eva Marie Saint (1954) · Jo Van Fleet (1955) · Dorothy Malone (1956) · Miyoshi Umeki (1957) · Wendy Hiller (1958) · Shelley Winters (1959) · Shirley Jones (1960) Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Patricia Neal (1947) · Shirley Booth (1949) · Maureen Stapleton (1951) · Marian Winters (1952) · Beatrice Straight (1953) · Jo Van Fleet (1954) · Patricia Jessel (1955) · Una Merkel (1956) · Peggy Cass (1957) · Anne Bancroft (1958) · Julie Newmar (1959) · Anne Revere (1960) · Colleen Dewhurst (1961) · Elizabeth Ashley (1962) · Sandy Dennis (1963) · Barbara Loden (1964) · Alice Ghostley (1965) · Zoe Caldwell (1966) · Marian Seldes (1967) · Zena Walker (1968) · Jane Alexander (1969) · Blythe Danner (1970) · Rae Allen (1971) · Elizabeth Wilson (1972) · Leora Dana (1973) · Frances Sternhagen (1974) · Rita Moreno (1975) Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

Persondata
NAME	Revere, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1903-6-25
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City, New York
DATE OF DEATH	1990-12-18
PLACE OF DEATH	Locust Valley, New York

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