in lassie come home and national velvet and and the courage of lassie and elizabeth taylor be eleven year old nevertheless and her charm and beauty be extraordinary and and what she lack in talent and experience be well hide in a fine production that be nominate for five academy award a horse trainer or dog owner and a spurned wife or mistress and liz be a female who be absorb in the give and receiving of love represent devotion to the object of passion be the center of her life little liz lavishes love on horse and dog with remarkable intensity ecstatic while a dreamer with a turbulent emotional life and persistent and the young liz dedicate herself to the prize win horse the way she later devote herself to men anticipate her late image of young sex goddess and liz a velvet be both saintly and mature howard barnes and in the new york herald tribune and call her a child who light up with the integrity of a great passion . direct by clarence brown with love attention to detail and the movie that make her a star be a big bestseller from another era set in sussex and england and where velvet brown and a butcher daughter and team with a vagabond teenager name mi taylo ( mickey rooney ) to train for competition a horse she win in a raffle from the coastal plain with it beach and to the roll hill and thatch cottage and and mile of country walk and national velvet be the product of a bygone era in movie making follow closely the structure of the popular enid bagnold novel and the movie be part horse story and part family portrait represent scene of training and riding be balance by cozy family scene and vignette about young love and sermon from mom on the virtue of courage and endurance the brown be a noble version of hollywood rustic dedicate to a sober work ethic and they live quiet and exemplary life mrs. brown ( anne revere ) be the very spirit of plain folk wisdom while the spokeswoman for common sense and fair play and she know well enough not to silence the semi hysterical energy of her horse crazy daughter and and she let the girl have her dream anne revere win an oscar a velvet mother and a do editor robert j. kern .