--- name: "Anne Revere" canonical: "https://film.one/person/anne-revere" roles: ["Actor"] born: "25 June 1903" died: "18 December 1990" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 69 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-20T02:10:26.921313+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Anne Revere Actor. Born 25 June 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 18 December 1990. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 25 June 1903, New York City, New York, USA - **Died:** 18 December 1990 - **Active:** 1943–1951 - **Also known as:** Ann Revere - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 2 nominated) - **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 64 (2), 1950s 81 (1) - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Romance 1 - **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $15m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Revere, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q239770, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720843/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7641 ## Fi1m on Anne Revere > Anne Revere spent the 1940s playing mothers to bigger stars, and she played them as women who had done the sums. She is dry where the part invites tears, and the films around her are usually better for the minutes she is on screen. In *The Song of Bernadette* (1943) the Soubirous family has fallen into poverty and lives in the town's disused jail, and Anne Revere's Louise spends the first half hour counting what is left. Damp on the walls, a husband who goes out each morning to look for work and comes back without it, a daughter who is dull at her lessons. Revere does not weep over any of it. She keeps house in it. That is the thing she does that most Hollywood mothers of the period did not: she plays the woman who has to manage, and she lets the managing show. Arthur Charles Miller lights those scenes in hard grey daylight, and Revere looks, in them, like someone who is cold. She came from the stage, Broadway from 1931, with a first film in 1934 repeating a stage part, and did not settle in Hollywood until around 1940. She arrived already grown up and was cast accordingly. Through the decade she was mother to Jennifer Jones, to Elizabeth Taylor in *National Velvet* (1944), to John Garfield in *Body and Soul* (1947), to Gregory Peck in *Gentleman's Agreement* (1947) and finally to Montgomery Clift in *A Place in the Sun* (1951). Nearly three dozen films in about a decade, almost all of them in support. Then the film work stops, and she went back to the theatre, returning to Broadway in *Toys in the Attic* in 1960, with television and the odd film into the 1970s. The Kazan film is the one to see her in. *Gentleman's Agreement* is a lecture with good actors in it, and Revere, as Peck's mother, is dry and unfooled, listening to her son's crusade with the expression of a woman who raised him and knows what he is like. Garfield and Celeste Holm carry the picture, but her scenes with Peck give it a home, and a mother who is not impressed is a useful thing in a film that is otherwise rather impressed with itself. The plain, freckled, careworn face did half the casting for her, frontier or tenement, and the critics of her own day had almost nothing bad to say. The reservation, and it is the only one we can find, is that the parts were small. She is on screen for minutes, not reels, and the studios rarely gave her anything to do but stand a step behind a star and decline to be fooled. We were more moved by that first half hour in the jail than by anything in the two hours of visions that follow, and it was Revere who did it, sitting at a table counting food. Henry King's film is a good hour too long and she is not in the hour that matters. Start with *Gentleman's Agreement*, which is shorter and sharper, then go to *Bernadette* for the opening reel, and do not feel obliged to stay for the miracles. ## Biography Anne Revere (1903–1990) was an American actress, also credited as Ann Revere. Born in New York City, she graduated from Wellesley College and trained at the American Laboratory Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in 1931 in *The Great Barrington* and her film debut in 1934 in *Double Door*. Revere appeared in nearly three dozen films between 1934 and 1951, often as mothers or matriarchs. Her credits include *The Song of Bernadette* (1943) as Louise Soubirous, *National Velvet* (1944) as Mrs. Araminty Brown, *Gentleman's Agreement* (1947) as Mrs. Green, and *A Place in the Sun* (1951) as Hannah Eastman. She received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for *The Song of Bernadette* and *Gentleman's Agreement*, and won for *National Velvet*. She was blacklisted in the early 1950s after her name appeared in *Red Channels* and she declined to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Revere won a Tony Award for her performance in *Toys in the Attic* (1960). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *A Place in the Sun* (1951), Fi1m 81, as Hannah Eastman — [page](https://film.one/film/a-place-in-the-sun.md) - *Gentleman's Agreement* (1947), Fi1m 64, as Mrs. Green — [page](https://film.one/film/gentlemans-agreement.md) - *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), Fi1m 63, as Louise Soubirous — [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md) ## Complete filmography (44) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Birch Interval* (1976), as Mrs. Tanner - *Baretta* (1975), series, Actor - *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), series, as Madame Salka Pal-Mir - *Two for the Money* (1972), as Mrs. Gap - *Macho Callahan* (1971), as Crystal - *Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon* (1970), as Miss Farber - *A Place in the Sun* (1951), as Hannah Eastman — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/a-place-in-the-sun.md) - *The Great Missouri Raid* (1951), as Mrs. Samuels - *You're My Everything* (1949), as Aunt Jane - *Deep Waters* (1948), as Mary McKay - *Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!* (1948), as Judith Dominy - *Secret Beyond the Door* (1947), as Caroline Lamphere - *Gentleman's Agreement* (1947), as Mrs. Green — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/gentlemans-agreement.md) - *Body and Soul* (1947), as Anna Davis - *Forever Amber* (1947), as Mother Red Cap - *Carnival in Costa Rica* (1947), as Mama Elsa Molina - *The Shocking Miss Pilgrim* (1947), as Alice Pritchard - *Dragonwyck* (1946), as Abigail Wells - *Fallen Angel* (1945), as Clara Mills - *Don Juan Quilligan* (1945), as Mrs. Cora Rostigaff - *National Velvet* (1945), as Mrs. Araminty Brown - *The Thin Man Goes Home* (1944), as Crazy Mary - *The Keys of the Kingdom* (1944), as Agnes Fiske - *Sunday Dinner for a Soldier* (1944), as Agatha Butterfield - *Rainbow Island* (1944), as Queen Oklana - *Standing Room Only* (1944), as Maj. Harriet Cromwell - *The Song of Bernadette* (1943), as Louise Soubirous — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/the-song-of-bernadette.md) - *Old Acquaintance* (1943), as Belle Carter - *Shantytown* (1943), as Mrs. Gorty - *The Meanest Man in the World* (1943), as Kitty Crockett - *The Gay Sisters* (1942), as Miss Ida Orner - *Are Husbands Necessary?* (1942), as Anna - *The Falcon Takes Over* (1942), as Jessie Florian (Uncredited) - *Meet the Stewarts* (1942), as Geraldine Stewart - *Star Spangled Rhythm* (1942), as Sarah (uncredited) - *Remember the Day* (1941), as Miss Nadine Price - *H.M. Pulham, Esq.* (1941), as Miss Redfern, John's Secretary (uncredited) - *Design for Scandal* (1941), as Nettie - *The Devil Commands* (1941), as Mrs. Walters - *The Flame of New Orleans* (1941), as Giraud's Sister - *Men of Boys Town* (1941), as Mrs. Fenely - *The Howards of Virginia* (1940), as Mrs. Betsy Norton - *One Crowded Night* (1940), as Mae Andrews - *Double Door* (1934), as Caroline Van Brett ## Gallery - ![Anne Revere](https://film.one/media/person/1234257/gallery-c1c3c9d41780.jpg) Anne Revere — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Studio_publicity_Anne_Revere.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Lobby card for the 1940 film One Crowded Night.](https://film.one/media/person/1234257/gallery-631f0fdf0cad.jpg) Lobby card for the 1940 film One Crowded Night. — RKO, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/One_Crowded_Night_lobby_card.jpg/1280px-One_Crowded_Night_lobby_card.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Anne Revere](https://film.one/media/person/1234257/gallery-4d09398735fd.jpg) Anne Revere — Image via TMDB - ![Anne Revere](https://film.one/media/person/1234257/gallery-4033471d8b80.jpg) Anne Revere — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 1 won, 2 nominated - 1948: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *Gentleman's Agreement* - 1946: Best Supporting Actress (won), for *National Velvet* - 1944: Best Supporting Actress (nominated), for *The Song of Bernadette* ### Other awards — 1 won - Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play 1960: Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play (won), for *Toys in the Attic* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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