Anne Revere, 1944 Oscar Winner

NEW YORK - Anne Revere, whose career of playing mothers in Hollywood films was cut short when she was blacklisted on allegations of being a Communist in the 1950s, died Tuesday of pneumonia at age 87.

Ms. Revere won an Academy Award in 1944 playing Elizabeth Taylor's mother in ``National Velvet.''

She also was nominated for Oscars for supporting roles as the mother of Jennifer Jones in the 1943 film ``The Song of Bernadette'' and in 1947 as Gregory Peck's mother in ``Gentleman's Agreement.''

She was Montgomery Clift's mother in the 1951 film ``A Place in the Sun.'' Ms. Revere was blacklisted by the film industry in the early 1950s and barred from films for 20 years for refusing to testify about alleged Communist links before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Banned from the screen, she pursued a stage career. She won a 1960 Tony Award for playing a rigid spinster opposite Maureen Stapleton and Jason Robards in Lillian Hellman's drama ``Toys in the Attic.''