1. Anne Revere was an American actress and a liberal member of the board of the Screen Actors' Guild.
20 Facts About Anne Revere
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Anne Revere was best known for her work on Broadway and her portrayals of mothers in a series of critically acclaimed films.
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Anne Revere won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the film National Velvet.
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Anne Revere was nominated in the same category for The Song of Bernadette and Gentleman's Agreement.
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Anne Revere won a Tony Award for her performance in Lillian Hellman's play Toys in the Attic in 1960.
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Anne Revere's father, Clinton, was a stockbroker, and she was raised on the Upper West Side and in Westfield, New Jersey, where she graduated from Westfield High School.
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Anne Revere went on to enroll at the American Laboratory School to study acting with Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky.
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Anne Revere gained early acting experience in regional and stock theater troupes.
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Anne Revere made her Broadway debut in 1931 in The Great Barrington.
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Anne Revere 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.
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Anne Revere worked steadily as a character actress in films, appearing in nearly three dozen between 1934 and 1951.
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Anne Revere was frequently cast in the role of a matriarch and played mother to Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, John Garfield, and Montgomery Clift.
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Anne Revere was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times and won for her performance in National Velvet.
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In 1951, Anne Revere resigned from the board of the Screen Actors Guild.
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Anne Revere later pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Anne Revere returned to the screen in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon.
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In 1962, television director Joseph Hardy fought for Anne Revere to appear in the popular soap opera A Time for Us.
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Anne Revere married Rosen on April 11,1935, and they remained wed until his death in 1984.
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Anne Revere died of pneumonia in her home at Locust Valley, New York, on December 18,1990, at the age of 87.
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Anne Revere was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.