Following in Liz's footsteps
National Velvet, the story of a girl jockey who wins the British Grand National, made a star out of twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor. Now, a generation later, MGM is making a sequel, International Velvet, that may push Tatum O'Neal, who won an Academy Award for Paper Moon when she was nine, from child star into adult actress. Much of the film is being shot along the scenic coast of southwest England, where cliffs rise dramatically from the sea and green fields are still dotted with ancient thatch-roofed cottages. TIME Associate Editor Gerald Clarke visited the set and filed this...
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