A descendant of Paul Revere, she was raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and in Westfield, New Jersey, graduated from Westfield High School and Wellesley College, and completed acting studies with Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky at the American Laboratory School. After early work in regional troupes, she debuted on Broadway in 1931, later reprising a stage role for the 1934 film Double…
