National Velvet
film by Brown [1944]
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- discussed in biography
- In Clarence Brown: The 1940s and ’50s
…1944, Taylor starred in Brown’s National Velvet, a classic about a young English girl’s quest to have her horse race in the Grand National. Rooney was in rare form as Velvet’s trainer, and Anne Revere won an Oscar for her supporting role as Taylor’s sacrificing mother. Brown was nominated for…
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- In Clarence Brown: The 1940s and ’50s
- Oscar to Revere for best supporting actress, 1945
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- Lansbury
- In Angela Lansbury
…Elizabeth Taylor’s snobbish sister in National Velvet (1944), and she received another Oscar nomination the following year for her supporting performance in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).
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- Taylor
- In Elizabeth Taylor
…by a star-making performance in National Velvet (1944) as a young woman who rescues a horse and trains it to race.
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