National Velvet (DVD, 2000) Elizabeth Taylor Mickey Taylor Classic Movie

National Velvet (DVD, 2000) Elizabeth Taylor Mickey Taylor Classic Movie As long as young hears endure, so will National Velvet and movies like it. In her starmaking role, Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, a wide-eyed adolescent who, assisted by her jockey pal (Mickey Rooney), trains Pie, a horse she won in a raffle, for the Grand National Steeplechase. Of course, no girl can ride in the National, can she? Yet Velvet, posing as a boy, assuredly does. Superbly directed by Clarence Brown, this exciting winner of two Academy Awards.