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Anne Revere : Oscar Winning Actress

 

Overview

Born : June 25, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA

Died : December 18, 1990 in Locust Valley, New York, USA  (pneumonia)

Height : 5' 5" (1.65 m)

Veteran person entertainer Anne Revere turned into one more in the long queue of skilled specialists whose professions would crash under the heaviness of the "Red Scare" panic that tore through Hollywood during the 1940s and 1950s. Brought into the world in Manhattan and an immediate relative of Revolutionary War figure Paul Revere, Anne moved on from Wellesley College, then, at that point, prepared for the stage at the American Laboratory Theater.


She made her Broadway bow in 1931 with "The Great Barrington" and her film debut in a rendition of another Broadway play, Double Door (1934). Getting back to Broadway in the wake of getting no other film offers, she wouldn't make one more film until 1940...then she remained. She proceeded to typify the warm, insightful and constantly apathetic mother to various extraordinary "brilliant age" stars, her downplayed power and force catching the hearts of pundits and war-torn crowds the same. Her plain, freckled, anxious looks showed up similarly at home on the boondocks or in an apartment setting. Anne was named multiple times for an Oscar for her solid, matriarchal figures - - as Jennifer Jones' mom in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Elizabeth Taylor's in National Velvet (1944) and Gregory Peck's in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), winning the Oscar on her second go after National Velvet (1944).


A flexible ability, she stretched out her reach to incorporate various fragile, hypochondriac and, surprisingly, insane women. This all finished unexpectedly in 1951 when her name showed up as one of 300 on the scandalous "Hollywood boycott". She had quite recently finished a significant job as Montgomery Clift's Salvation Army mother in A Place in the Sun (1951). She remained on her Fifth Amendment freedoms before the Communist-fixated House Un-American Activities Committee and, accordingly, her part in that film was decreased to a celebrated appearance. She didn't show up in one more film for almost 20 years (a featuring job in another TV series was additionally taken from her).


Meanwhile, she and spouse Samuel Rosen, a phase entertainer, author and chief, ran an acting school in Los Angeles prior to moving to New York, where she figured out how to track down work in stock creations and under the Broadway lights. She got the Tony Award during the 1960-1961 season for her fine depiction of an old maid sister in Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," a section that went to British entertainer Wendy Hiller when it moved to film. Television occupations started coming her direction again during the 1960s, and by 1970 she was working inconsistently on such daytime cleansers as Search for Tomorrow (1951) and Ryan's Hope (1975). She showed up momentarily in Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970) featuring Liza Minnelli, and afterward procured a showier part in Birch Interval (1976).


Anne died in the wake of contracting pneumonia at age 87 and was made due by a sister. She had no youngsters. Albeit a survivor of "Cold War" distrustfulness, she generally continued on, showing the very sort of coarseness and fortitude that encapsulated her exhibition of characters on film.

She was a relative of American Revolutionary War legend Paul Revere.

She was boycotted in 1951.

Was once financial officer of the Screen Actors Guild.

A deep rooted Yankee, she generally kept up with that the copy of her supposed Communist Party enlistment card created by HUAC as "evidence" of her "rebellious exercises," which bore no signature, was a "plant.".

The widow of entertainer/author/chief Samuel Rosen, who guided her on Broadway in a development of "As You Like It."

Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Arttic."

Was considered for the piece of Ma Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), however Beulah Bondi was projected all things being equal.

Worship's Oscar statuette sold for $89,625 on November 7, 2009, when it was unloaded by Heritage Auctions.

Alongside her Oscar statuette, Revere's Tony grant for Toys in the Attic was additionally sold by Heritage Auctions for $2,987.50 (November 7, 2009).

Was the 25th entertainer to get an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for National Velvet (1944) at The eighteenth Academy Awards on March 7, 1946.

History in "Entertainers of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.


Is one of 22 Oscar-winning entertainers to have been brought into the world in the territory of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.

Little girl of Clinton (1870-1949), brought into the world in the territory of California, and Harriette (née Winn) Revere (1875-1943), brought into the world in the province of Georgia.

Played the mother of Gregory Peck and John Garfield in their 1947 Best Actor Oscar-assigned exhibitions; in Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Body and Soul (1947). The two entertainers lost the honor to Ronald Colman for A Double Life (1947).

Was in three Oscar Best Picture chosen people: The Song of Bernadette (1943), Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and A Place in the Sun (1951), with Gentleman's Agreement the main victor.

Referenced in She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya (2022) as one of Ouspenskaya's acting understudies.

Taken back to motion pictures by Otto Preminger, who had a long record of aiding survivors of the boycott.

List of Anne Reverse Movies

  • Ryan's Hope (TV Series)
  •  Birch Interval
  •  Baretta (TV Series)
  •  The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series)
  •  Two for the Money (TV Movie)
  •  Search for Tomorrow (TV Series)
  •  Macho Callahan
  •  Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
  •  A Flame in the Wind (TV Series)
  •  Play of the Week (TV Series)
  •  The Edge of Night (TV Series)
  •  A Place in the Sun
  •  The Great Missouri Raid
  •  You're My Everything
  •  Deep Waters
  •  Summer Lightning
  •  Secret Beyond the Door
  •  Gentleman's Agreement
  •  Body and Soul
  •  Forever Amber
  •  Carnival in Costa Rica
  •  The Shocking Miss Pilgrim
  •  Dragonwyck
  •  Fallen Angel
  •  Don Juan Quilligan
  •  The Keys of the Kingdom
  •  National Velvet
  •  Sunday Dinner for a Soldier
  •  The Thin Man Goes Home
  •  Rainbow Island
  •  Standing Room Only
  •  The Song of Bernadette
  •  Old Acquaintance
  •  Shantytown
  •  The Meanest Man in the World
  •  Star Spangled Rhythm
  •  The Gay Sisters
  •  Are Husbands Necessary?
  •  The Falcon Takes Over
  •  Meet the Stewarts
  •  Design for Scandal
  •  Remember the Day
  •  H.M. Pulham, Esq.
  •  The Flame of New Orleans
  •  Men of Boys Town
  •  The Devil Commands
  •  The Tree of Liberty
  •  One Crowded Night
  •  Double Door    & Many more….

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