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Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18,
1990) was an United States|American film
actor|actress.

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.  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 Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress nominations for three motherly roles
during 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, and Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement
(1947).   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 Joseph
McCarthy|McCarthy witchhunt|witchhunts.  Called
before the House Un-American Activities Committee,
Revere pled the Fifth Amendment to the United
States Constitution|Fifth Amendment and she was
Hollywood blacklist|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. 

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 supporting
roles in television before her death from
pneumonia in Locust Valley, New York.