National Velvet is a 1944 American Technicolor sports film directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold.

It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury, Anne Revere, Reginald Owen, and an adolescent Elizabeth Taylor.

Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about their connection.

When it is discovered that the jockey is a girl, Velvet becomes a media sensation and receives lucrative offers to travel to Hollywood and be filmed with the Pie.

The other film, A Place in the Sun, featured Revere as the mother of Taylor's love interest, played by Montgomery Clift.

Velvet, in the book, is a sickly child who is given to great imagination and spirit; her father is stern and given to anger, but the mother, who once swam the English Channel, is stronger still and stands up to him.

Since her days as a swimmer, she has become a large woman and weighs 16 stone—224 pounds (102 kg) at the time of the story, and warns Velvet never to allow herself to be burdened by weight.

In the novel, Velvet poses as Russian-British jockey James Tasky, who was unable to race because his horse died as it was being brought from Estonia, and Mi arranged to take his official papers allowing him in the Grand National.

The site's consensus reads: "National Velvet makes the most of a breakout performance from Elizabeth Taylor, delivering a timeless family-friendly tearjerker that avoids straying into the sentimental".

[9] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 83 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

The film stars Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, and Nanette Newman, who plays Velvet Brown as an adult.

Sarah comes to live with Velvet and her boyfriend John after Donald and his wife die from their injuries in a car accident.