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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 .
Alexander Younger Craig (30 March 1884 – 25 June 1945) was a Scottish-born American character actor, particularly known for his roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and National Velvet (1944). He was particularly known for portraying stereotypically tight-fisted Scotsmen.
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.
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.
Mickey Rooney and Taylor in National Velvet (1944), her first major film role. Taylor was cast in her first starring role at the age of 12, when she was chosen to play a girl who wants to compete as a jockey in the exclusively male Grand National in National Velvet. [1]: 40–47 She later called it "the most exciting film" of her career. [10]
Proceeding to Hollywood in 1942, she signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and obtained her first film roles, in Gaslight (1944), National Velvet (1944), and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). She appeared in 11 further MGM films, mostly in minor roles, and after her contract ended in 1952, she began to supplement her cinematic work with ...
1944 Gaslight: Nancy Oliver [14] National Velvet: Edwina Brown [15] 1945 The Picture of Dorian Gray: Sibyl Vane [15] 1946 The Harvey Girls: Em [15] The Hoodlum Saint "Dusty" Millard [16] Till the Clouds Roll By: Star of London Gaieties [17] 1947 The Private Affairs of Bel Ami: Clotilde de Marelle [16] If Winter Comes: Mabel Sabre [15] 1948 ...
Below is a list of American films released in 1944. ... Cast Genre Notes Abroad with Two Yanks: ... National Velvet: Clarence Brown: Mickey Rooney, ...