Review of National Velvet (1945) by Chris Kaltenbach for Baltimore Sun — 09 Feb 1974
It has got to be in a list of her best: the sheer freshness of her screen presence as young Velvet Brown who prepares a wild but talented horse for the Grand National turns Clarence Brown’s sentimental adaption of Enid Bagnold’s children’s classic into the one film that everyone who has ever heard of Elizabeth Taylor has probably seen.
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This review of National Velvet (1945) was written by Chris Kaltenbach and published by Baltimore Sun on 09 Feb 1974.
National Velvet has generally received very positive reviews.
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