Anne Revere

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

She received the Tony Award during the 1960-1961 season for her fine portrayal of a spinster sister in Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," a part that went to British actress Wendy Hiller when it transferred to film.

TV jobs began coming her way again in the mid-1960s, and by 1970 she was working sporadically on such daytime soaps as Search for Tomorrow (1951) and Ryan's Hope (1975).

This all ended abruptly in 1951 when her name appeared as one of 300 on the infamous "Hollywood blacklist".

She had just completed a major role as Montgomery Clift's Salvation Army mom in A Place in the Sun (1951). She stood on her Fifth Amendment rights before the Communist-obsessed House Un-American Activities Committee and, as a result, her part in that film was reduced to a glorified cameo. She did not appear in another film for nearly 20 years (a starring role in a new TV series was also taken from her). In the interim, she and husband Samuel Rosen, a stage actor, writer and director, ran an acting school in Los Angeles before relocating to New York, where she managed to find employment in stock productions and under the Broadway lights.

Played the mother of Gregory Peck and John Garfield in their 1947 Best Actor Oscar-nominated performances; in Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and Body and Soul (1947). Both actors lost the award to Ronald Colman for A Double Life (1947).

Was considered for the part of Ma Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), but Beulah Bondi was cast instead.

Anne was nominated three times for an Oscar for her strong, matriarchal figures -- as Jennifer Jones' mother 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 try for National Velvet (1944). A versatile talent, she extended her range to include a number of brittle, neurotic and even crazy ladies.

Veteran character actress Anne Revere became another in the long line of talented artists whose careers would crash under the weight of the "Red Scare" hysteria that tore through Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Manhattan and a direct descendant of Revolutionary War figure Paul Revere, Anne graduated from Wellesley College, then trained for the stage at the American Laboratory Theatre.

Returning to Broadway after receiving no other film offers, she would not make another movie until 1940. . . then she stayed. She went on to epitomize the warm, wise and invariably stoic mother to a number of great "golden age" stars, her understated power and intensity capturing the hearts of critics and war-torn audiences alike. Her plain, freckled, careworn looks appeared equally at home on the frontier or in a tenement setting.

She made her Broadway bow in 1931 with "The Great Barrington" and her film debut in a version of another Broadway play, Double Door (1934).

Daughter of Clinton (1870-1949), born in the state of California, and Harriette (née Winn) Revere (1875-1943), born in the state of Georgia.