A rigid, hard core, dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, she always maintained that the photocopy of her alleged Communist Party registration card, which bore no signature, was a "plant."
She was a descendant of American Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere.
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."
Was considered for the part of Mrs. Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (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 Arttic."