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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 .
Terence E. Kilburn [1] (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor.Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.
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]
She earned two consecutive Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and won the Supporting Actress Golden Globe for the latter film. [4] Subsequent films throughout the late 1940s and the 1950s included National Velvet (1944), [ 1 ] The Harvey Girls (1946), [ 5 ] State of the Union (1948), [ 1 ] Kind Lady (1951), [ 6 ] The Court ...
1944 The White Cliffs of Dover: Betsy Kenney at age 10 National Velvet: Velvet Brown 1946 Courage of Lassie: Katherine Eleanor Merrick 1947 Life with Father: Mary Skinner With William Powell and Irene Dunne: Cynthia: Cynthia Bishop aka The Rich Full Life: 1948 A Date with Judy: Carol Pringle Julia Misbehaves: Susan Packett 1949 Little Women ...
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 ...
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.
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.