Anne Revere Biography

Fast Facts

• Remained married to writer and director Samuel Rosen from 1935 to his death in 1984
• Her first Broadway appearance came in 1931 with a role in "The Great Barrington․"
• Studied at Wellesley College and went on to study acting at the American Laboratory School
• Quote: "I'm a free thinking Yankee rebel and nobody's going to tell me what to do!"
• Best known for her role as the mother of Elizabeth Taylor in the film "National Velvet," for which she won an Academy Award in 1945
• Studied acting under actors Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky
• Banned from appearing in Hollywood films for two decades after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities