Wissenswertes

She was a descendant of American Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere.

A dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, she always maintained that the photocopy of her alleged Communist Party registration card produced by HUAC as "proof" of her "subversive activities," which bore no signature, was a "plant".

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

Was considered for the part of Ma Bailey in Ist das Leben nicht schön? (1946), but Beulah Bondi was cast instead.

Was once treasurer of the Screen Actors Guild.

Won Broadway's 1960 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Dramatic) for Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic".

Was the 25th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Kleines Mädchen, großes Herz (1944) at The 18th Academy Awards on March 7, 1946.

She was blacklisted in 1951.

The widow of actor/writer/director Samuel Rosen, who directed her on Broadway in a production of "As You Like It."

Along with her Oscar statuette, Revere's Tony award for Toys in the Attic was also sold by Heritage Auctions for $2,987.50 (November 7, 2009).

Brought back to movies by Otto Preminger, who had a long record of helping victims of the blacklist.

Was in three Oscar Best Picture nominees: Das Lied von Bernadette (1943), Tabu der Gerechten (1947) and Ein Platz an der Sonne (1951), with Gentleman's Agreement the only winner.

Biography in "Actresses of a Certain Character: Forty Familiar Hollywood Faces from the Thirties to the Fifties" by Axel Nissen.

Played the mother of Gregory Peck and John Garfield in their 1947 Best Actor Oscar-nominated performances; in Tabu der Gerechten (1947) and Jagd nach Millionen (1947). Both actors lost the award to Ronald Colman for Mord in Ekstase (1947).

Mentioned in She-Wolf in Hollywood: The Story of Maria Ouspenskaya (2024) as one of Ouspenskaya's acting students.

She has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Kleines Mädchen, großes Herz (1944), Tabu der Gerechten (1947) and Ein Platz an der Sonne (1951).

Is one of 22 Oscar-winning actresses to have been born in the state of New York. The others are Alice Brady, Teresa Wright, Celeste Holm, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Shirley Booth, Susan Hayward, Patty Duke, Anne Bancroft, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, Lee Grant, Beatrice Straight, Whoopi Goldberg, Mercedes Ruehl, Marisa Tomei, Mira Sorvino, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Connelly, Melissa Leo and Anne Hathaway.