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Anne Revere
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Starring Gregory Peck, Celeste Holm, John Garfield and Anne Revere and directed by Elia Kazan, Gentleman’s Agreement went on to become Fox’s top money-maker of 1948 and reaped award after award. But there was no happy ending for many of the members of the film’s cast and crew. In the early 1950’s the House Un-American Activities committee derailed the career of Anne Revere, contributed to John Garfield death of a heart attack at age 39, and scarred Elia Kazan’s relationship with many in Hollywood.
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To say, for example, that Anne Revere conveys an almost hysterical intensity as Garfield's concerned, possessive mother is to understate the case, and to underestimate her achievement. It would be more precise to credit her with restoring, in a few short scenes, a literary concept of the Jewish mother that had been thrown out of balance by three decades of well-meaning, soft-edged, hypocritical Hollywood matrons. Revere (who, like just about everybody else who worked on BODY AND SOUL, was blacklisted from movie work) is both the real spur to Garfield's undefined ambitions and the over-powering rival to recessive "co-star" Lilli Palmer, for her son's love and loyalty.
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Anne Revere was born in New York on 25th June, 1903. Determined to be an actress she moved to Hollywood where she appeared in a series of films including Double Door (1934), One Crowded Night (1940), The Devil Commands (1941), Meet the Stewarts (1942), Shantytown (1943), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Rainbow Island (1944), National Velvet (1944), Forever Amber (1947) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947).
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With her husband, the playwright and director Samuel Rosen, Revere moved to New York where the couple ran an acting school, and Revere returned to Broadway. She won a Tony Award in 1961 for her role in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic. Still an outsider in Hollywood, Revere was not considered for the film version which was played by Wendy Hiller.
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Jones is all wide-eyed innocence and is ably supported by the always excellent Anne Revere as her mother and the imperious Gladys Cooper as a nun who doesn't believe Bernadette because she hasn't "suffered enough." But what makes this film truly soar on the wings of faith, in addition to Jones's performance, is Alfred Newman's heavenly score.
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Born in New York, New York, Revere was a direct descendant of American Revolution figure Paul Revere. She made her Broadway acting debut in 1931 in The Great Barrington and followed this success with a role in Double Door.
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