The name ANNE REVERE may not ring a bell to many today, but during the 1940s, the Broadway-trained, Tony-winning actress, who was a descendant of Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere, was one of the most revered character actresses in Hollywood. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1944 for National Velvet and left an indelible mark on the landscape of film as Gregory Peck’s sympathetic mother in Gentleman’s Agreement in 1947. Learn about her life, career, and the shameful witch hunt of an obsessed Wisconsin Senator looking to make a name for himself that ended her brilliant Hollywood career.
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Sources:
The Film Encyclopedia (1994), By Ephraim Katz;
Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia (1994), by Leonard Maltin;
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later (2022), by Larry Ceplair;
Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007), by Peter Stanfield, et. al;
Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Black List (2012), by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle;
“Anne Revere Begins Again” by Robert Fray, After Dark magazine, December 1970;
“Anne Revere Bio,” Spartacus Educational, by John Simon;
“Horse Sense: What I Learned About Bring A Mother From ‘National Velvet’s’ Arminty Brown,” by Dana Stevens, Slate.com, April 11, 2014;
“Anne Revere, 87, Actress, Dies; Was Movie Mother of Many Stars,” by Peter B. Flint, The New York Times, December 19, 1990;
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