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National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold. It stars Mickey Rooney , Donald Crisp , Angela Lansbury , Anne Revere , Reginald Owen , and an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor .
National Velvet is a novel by Enid Bagnold (1889–1981), first published in 1935. It was illustrated by Laurian Jones, Bagnold's daughter, who was born in 1921. The novel tells the story of a teenaged girl who wins a horse racing competition. It was a best-seller, and adapted into a highly successful 1944 film and a 1960-62 television series.
Robert James Kern (March 29, 1885 – May 30, 1972) was an American film editor with more than sixty feature film credits. [1] He is known for editing National Velvet (1944), which won him the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. [2] National Velvet was one of thirteen films that Kern edited with director Clarence Brown.
National Velvet [72] [73] 1944 Drama A young Elizabeth Taylor bonds with the steeplechase horse she loves. Home in Indiana [74] [75] 1944 Drama A former sulky driver (Walter Brennan) gives his nephew lessons in harness racing. The Hundred Pound Window [76] 1944 Comedy Clerk (Richard Attenborough) at a big-wager window ends up owing a big debt.
His work includes National Velvet (1944), Albert Lewin's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), The Yearling (1946) and That Forsyte Woman (1949) for which he received an Academy Award nomination in 1951. [2] In 1961, his costume work on Spartacus earned an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color, shared with Bill Thomas. [2]
National Velvet (1935), is the story of a young girl who wins the Grand National steeplechase. A highly successful film version came out in 1944, starring the young Elizabeth Taylor. However, Bagnold's work includes a broad range of subject matter and style. [14] The Squire is a novel about having a baby.
Jenkins' other films include National Velvet (1944), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), My Brother Talks to Horses (1947), The Bride Goes Wild (1948) Summer Holiday (1948), and his final film Big City (1948).
1944. National Velvet; 1945. The Enchanted Forest; Son of Lassie; 1946. Courage of Lassie; Song of the South; The Yearling; 1947. Fun and Fancy Free; 1948. The Boy with Green Hair; Hills of Home; So Dear to My Heart; 1949. Challenge to Lassie; The Secret Garden; The Sun Comes Up