
FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
National Velvet
Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer98%as of 2025-01-30
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.1/10as of 2021-10-05
What it is
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, about a young English girl who rides a racehorse. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere, Reginald Owen, and an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor.
At a glance
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- English
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