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.
Theatrical release poster
Mi and Velvet bandaging the Pie's legs
Mi cuts Velvet's hair before the race.
Clarence Leon Brown was an American film director.
Brown in 1922
Clarence Brown in 1921
Journalist Dorothy Thompson is entertained on the set of The Rains Came (1939) by director Clarence Brown (left) and Louis Bromfield, author of the novel on which the film was based.