Anne Revere

Anne Revere
from the Gentleman's Agreement trailer (1947)
Born	June 25, 1903(1903-06-25) New York City
Died	December 18, 1990 (aged 87) Locust Valley, New York
Years active	1931 - 1975
Spouse(s)	Samuel Rosen (1935 - 1984)

Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 - December 18, 1990) was an award-winning American stage, film, and television actress.

Born in New York City, Revere was a direct descendant of American Revolution hero Paul Revere. ^[1] Her father was a stockbroker, and she was raised on the Upper West Side and in Westfield, New Jersey. In 1926, she graduated from Wellesley College, then enrolled at the American Laboratory School to study acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky. ^[2]

Revere made her Broadway debut in 1931 in The Great Barrington. Three years later she went to Hollywood to reprise her stage role in the film adaptation of Double Door. She returned to Broadway to create the role of Martha Dobie in the original 1934 production of The Children's Hour, and in later years she appeared on the New York stage in As You Like It, The Three Sisters, and Toys in the Attic, for which she won the 1960 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.

Revere worked steadily as a character actress in films, appearing in nearly three dozen between 1934 and 1951. ^[2] She frequently was cast in the role of a matriarch and played mother to Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, John Garfield, and Montgomery Clift, among others. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times and won for her performance in National Velvet. Additional screen credits included The Song of Bernadette, Gentleman's Agreement, The Keys of the Kingdom, Body and Soul, and A Place in the Sun.

In 1951, Revere resigned from the board of the Screen Actors Guild after she pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She was blacklisted from the film industry for the next twenty years, ^[2] finally returning to the screen in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon.

Revere and her husband, theatre director Samuel Rosen, moved to New York and opened an acting school, and she continued to work in summer stock and regional theater productions and on television, notably in the soap operas The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow, and Ryan's Hope.

Revere died of pneumonia in her Locust Valley, New York home at the age of 87.

Filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Anne Revere

• Anne Revere at the Internet Broadway Database
• Anne Revere at the Internet Movie Database
• Anne Revere at Find a Grave