Robert Osborne – NATIONAL VELVET – American Film Institute

NATIONAL VELVET

1945

 

Robert Osborne introduces NATIONAL VELVET (1945) as Elizabeth Taylor breakout role, although the twelve-year-old had been cast in four features films already. Despite Taylor’s titular performance and her life-long experience riding horses, Mickey Rooney received top billing. During production, twenty-three-year old Rooney was preparing for service in WWII. Angela Lansbury, who was nineteen at the time, made her second film performance in NATIONAL VELVET

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