Number 48: Anne Revere as Mrs. Araminity Brown in "National Velvet" (Best Supporting Actress Ranking)

Anne Revere is the professional when it comes to enjoying understanding and supportive mothers. There is anything about her that makes her seem so smart and so heat at the identical time and she always provides an enormous quantity of grace and dignity to her roles. And while her other two nominated performances in The Song of Bernadette and Gentleman’s Agreement may possibly have had a lot more remarkable possibilities, her part as Elizabeth Taylor’s comprehending mother confirmed her intelligence and her warmth at its most captivating.

Is there anyone who would not want Donald Crisp and Anne Revere as his/her parents? These two actors are capable to essentially steal the demonstrate from Elizabeth Taylor and her horse and incorporate a fully new and unexpected dimension to the story.

Anne Revere performed Mrs. Brown is a quite peaceful, no-nonsense and powerful-faced girl. She doesn’t show a whole lot of emotion, but even with this, Anne Revere is even now in a position to make her 1 of the most warm and caring girls in the globe. In some way you do not want to miss out on a term she’s declaring, you really don't want to miss a second of her on-display screen time. She guides all the other figures by way of their possess storylines without at any time creating her own appearance too dominant. There is something transcendent about her as you can constantly sense the adore driving her sturdy confront.

The truth that Mrs. Brown has her own backstory – she became the 1st lady to swim the English channel – does not really make a difference in movement of the story aside from the value of her prize cash but you don’t have a difficult time to feel that Mrs. Brown utilised to have her very own existence before she turned a wife and mom.

Mrs. Brown also her own philosophy – she thinks that there is a time for every thing and that, as soon as one thing is above, you ought to allow it go. Even though this is all debatable, Anne Revere delivers her traces with so energy and decisiveness that you will imagine every phrase she suggests. Especially in the scene in the attic, Anne Revere shines as 1 of the most admirable mom characters at any time set on the display.

All the honesty that Anne Revere set into this character also tends to make one of her closing scenes so strong. When Velvet returns from the race and asks her mother if they ended up in the best in the entire world, Mrs. Brown solutions with of course – and you just know that she would never say it if it was not accurate.

Anne Revere certainly took what was probably supposed to be a plot unit for a story around increasing star Elizabeth Taylor and crammed it with life and intelligence. Of course, the nature of the function did not give her any true challenged but she superbly created her personal difficulties. Sometimes she could consider her character’s power a bit too significantly, although – her experience often seems to be nearly unconcerned with the happenings all around her and the constant wise words Mrs. Brown is asked to say by the screenplay make her occasionally show up like a fortune-cookie and you have to question if there is ever a second when Mrs. Brown does not look saint-like. Anne Revere’s perhaps sometimes also dignified performing in some times sadly underlines the difficulties of the character but all round, it is nevertheless a stunning and touching portrayal of a single of the most admirable mothers at any time put on the screen.