Category: Drama
All Genres: Drama, Family, Sport
Release Year: 1944
Country: USA
Runtime: 123
Rating: 7.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Clarence Brown
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Simple Story Of A Boy . . . A Girl . . . And A Horse! Set to the thunder of the Grand National Steeplechase!

Writing by: Enid Bagnold - (novel "National Velvet")
Theodore Reeves - (screenplay) and
Helen Deutsch - (screenplay)

Produced by: Pandro S. Berman - producer

Cast: Mickey Rooney - Mi Taylor
Donald Crisp - Mr. Brown
Elizabeth Taylor - Velvet Brown
Anne Revere - Mrs. Brown
Angela Lansbury - Edwina Brown
Jackie Butch Jenkins - Donald Brown (as Jackie Jenkins)
Juanita Quigley - Malvolia Brown
Arthur Treacher - Race Patron
Reginald Owen - Farmer Ede
Norma Varden - Miss Sims
Terry Kilburn - Ted

Music: Herbert Stothart
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Plot Outline: A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for Englands Grand National Sweepstakes.
Plot: Mi Taylor was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his fathers journal, leads him to the quiet English country-side home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National - Englands greatest racing event.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Dedicated to the memory of Josefina Camberos

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: Mr. Brown, a butcher who should know better, authoritatively announces that one small-to-medium-sized lobster will provide a family dinner for six: A claw apiece for he and his wife, the entire tail (the meatiest part of the crustacean) for his picky young son whos a finicky eater and whats "in-between" (basically all of it’s inedible entrails) for his three teenage daughters--with some left over for the dog! In reality, a lobster of that size would hardly feed one hungry person.

Trivia: There are 10 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Producer Pandro S. Berman originally did not think that Elizabeth Taylor was right for the role due to the young actress lack of physical development. In addition to riding lessons, she began eating more and doing "chest enlargement exercises". By the time the casting decisions were made, nature had given young Miss Taylor the necessary inches.
• After production was completed, arrangements were made to allow Elizabeth Taylor to keep the horse.
• Future British MP Baroness Shirley Williams auditioned for the Velvet Brown role.

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