National Velvet (1944) |
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Other InformationAwardsNational Film Registry National Film Preservation Board, USA [2003] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Director Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Cinematography, Color Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Nominated) Best Film Editing Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Won) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1946] (Won/Nominated: Won) Plot SummaryAlthough National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike ... TaglineSimple Story Of A Boy . . . A Girl . . . And A Horse! Set to the thunder of the Grand National Steeplechase! Related MoviesNational Velvet [Version of] (Year of movie: 1960) International Velvet [Followed by] (Year of movie: 1978) DiscographySinglesMen of Harlech Rule Britannia Sumer Is Icumen In Greensleeves |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes Donald Brown: I want my insect bottle!
Edwina Brown: Shut up and stop being disgusting.
Mr. Herbert Brown: It`s one thing to out-think a man, quite another to outsmart him.
Mrs. Brown: And who will say which is which?
Velvet Brown: Who`s been in my box?
Donald Brown: Me.
Edwina Brown: [correcting him] "I."
Donald Brown: You, too?
Donald Brown: I was sick all night!
Mr. Herbert Brown: Donald, you told a story, didn`t you?
Donald Brown: Yes, sir, it was a story.
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well, you know what to do.
Donald Brown: What?
Mr. Herbert Brown: You say you`re sorry.
[Donald puts his head on his hand]
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well?
Mrs. Brown: He`s thinking.
Mr. Herbert Brown: [to Donald] Well, make up your mind.
Donald Brown: Alright, I`m sorry.
[continues eating his dinner]
Mr. Herbert Brown: Well, go on. Sorry for what?
Donald Brown: For being sick all night!
Mr. Herbert Brown: That boy will make a lawyer.
[Mi is trying to tell Velvet the "tricks" for the Grand National]
Velvet Brown: Don`t, Mi! No matter what you say or do everyone else out there will know more than me. It`s no use, Mi.
Mi Taylor: Do think a race like this is won by luck?
Velvet Brown: No, by knowing the Pi can win and telling him so!
Edwina Brown: I`m so angry I could shake you!
Malvolia "Mally" Brown: I only wanted to explain about the polish...
Edwina Brown: ...so you told Miss Sims I was meeting a *boy*! It`s a wonder you didn`t tell her who and where!
Malvolia "Mally" Brown: I didn`t know where!
[Mrs. Brown is talking with Velvet in the attic]
Mrs. Brown: We`re alike. I, too, believe that everyone should have a chance at a breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was twenty when they said a woman couldn`t swim the Channel. You`re twelve; you think a horse of yours can win the Grand National. Your dream has come early; but remember, Velvet, it will have to last you all the rest of your life.
Mr. Hallam: So you`re to win the gelding, are you Velvet?
Velvet: Oh, of course I`m to win.
Mr. Hallam: There are ways of arranging it, aren`t there? And your father`s a clever man...
Velvet: Oh, I didn`t bother him, Mr. Hallam. I just arranged it with God.
Mi Taylor: Some day you`ll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity - clutching with your bare hands `til the knuckles show white.
Mrs. Brown: That`ll be a dispute to the end of time, Mr. Brown: whether it`s better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
Velvet Brown: I want it all quickly `cause I don`t want God to stop and think and wonder if I`m getting more than my share.
Mrs. Brown: What`s the meaning of goodness if there isn`t a little badness to overcome?
Trivia Susanna Foster turned down the role of Velvet Brown. Eighteen-year-old Gene Tierney had been set to portray Velvet Brown. When the film was delayed, Tierney signed a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox. One of the few films to be shown on commercial network television after being shown on local stations, rather than the other way around. Ranked #9 on the American Film Institute`s list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Sports" in June 2008. Carl and Eleanor Goldbogen appear as extras in the crowd scenes. Carl`s brother was Avrom Goldbogen, professionally known as producer Michael Todd, who would become Elizabeth Taylor`s third husband in 1957. The Pie was played by King Charles, a grandson of Man o` War and whose owner had trained him as a show jumper. The race-course map which Mi shows Velvet is an accurate portrayal of the real-life Grand National course at Aintree, near Liverpool. What`s more, like the movie, the course actually has a Becher`s Brook jump and a Canal Turn jump with its sharp left turn. The story that Mi tells to Donald about a shipwrecked horse is based on a true story about a New Zealand-bred thoroughbred named "Moiffa" who did in fact survive his ordeal and went on to win the Grand National the following year. In 1979, Mickey Rooney starred in "The Black Stallion," which is about a shipwrecked horse that goes on to win a major race. Future British MP Baroness Shirley Williams auditioned for the Velvet Brown role.
After production was completed, arrangements were made to allow Elizabeth Taylor to keep the horse. Producer Pandro S. Berman originally did not think that Elizabeth Taylor was right for the role due to the young actress` lack of physical development. In addition to riding lessons, she began eating more and doing "chest enlargement exercises". By the time the casting decisions were made, nature had given young Miss Taylor the necessary inches.
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