On Jan. 26, 1945 — 80 years ago Sunday — “National Velvet,” a children’s movie starring a 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and Angela Lansbury opened in theaters nationwide.

National Velvet is a horse picture with wide general appeal. The production also focuses attention on a new dramatic find - moppet Elizabeth Taylor. National Velvet is a horse picture with wide ...

“Some day you’ll learn that greatness is only the seizing of opportunity – clutching with your bare hands ’til the knuckles show white!” MGM, America’s starriest studio during the Second World War, ...

Was National Velvet a crucial part of your horsey childhood? Jen Scouler takes a nostalgic look back at the film which launched Elizabeth Taylor’s career Every child growing up with a love of horses ...

A FAITHFUL adaptation of Enid Bagnold's novel, National Velvet is the story of a little girl with big dreams. An 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor gives an impassioned performance as the heroine who wins a ...

National Velvet tells how a twelve-year-old butcher’s daughter, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), helped by a vagabond ex-jockey (Mickey Rooney) wins the Grand National steeplechase. It is the best ...

Earlier this summer, a project that was dedicated as “finished” in 2006 was finally completed. It’s the 16th Street Pedestrian Bridge, by Carter & Burgess, that crosses I-25 and connects the trendy ...

Elizabeth Taylor made her big screen debut in National Velvet in 1944 and went on to appear in dozens of movies, including Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Cleopatra and Butterfield 8. But with public interest ...