national velvet

     

Producer Pandro S. Berman planned to star Katharine Hepburn as Velvet Brown in this equine film

Trivia about national velvet

  • Mickey Rooney played an English rider in this 1944 film that jockeys Liz Taylor into position for the Grand National
  • Enid Bagnold wrote this classic tale of a young equestrian & the horse she wins in a raffle
  • Variety called it "a horse picture" with "a new dramatic find-- moppet Elizabeth Taylor"
  • Lady Jones was the married name of Enid Bagnold, who wrote this 1935 novel about a 14-year-old girl & her horse
  • The Pie was little Liz Taylor's horse in this classic

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