Anne Revere, actor. Revere, a descendant of Paul Revere, won an Academy Award in 1945 playing Taylor's mother
in "National Velvet." She also was nominated for an Oscar in a
supporting role as the mother of Jones in the 1943 film "The Song of
Bernadette," and in 1947 as Peck's mother in "Gentleman's
Agreement."
She successfully blacklisted herself. Publicly she denied having been a member of
the Communist Party, yet when asked by the HUAC in April of 1951 to swear she had never been a communist, she
refused. (She was a card-carrying member
of the party as the HUAC already knew) It
is also taken as bible truth that she was forced out of directors position of the
Screen Actors Guild. She was not forced out of her position on the Board of
Directors on the Screen Actors Guild, she voluntarily resigned immediately after her
appearance before the HUAC in May of 1951. Her leaving Hollywood, was not, as
she liked to say a “forced hiatus”. She left on her own in 1952, well before a
studio could block her from a film.