In honor of Mother's Day, this week's DVD pick has my all-time favorite movie mother, Anne Revere, who won an Oscar for her role as Elizabeth Taylor's mother in "National Velvet." 
She also played strong, devoted mothers in Best Picture Oscar winner "Gentleman's Agreement" (about a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to expose antisemitism) and the boxing classic "Body and Soul." In "National Velvet" she plays a character who is loving but not demonstrative. She and her husband even call each other "Mr. Brown" and "Mrs. Brown." But when her daughter Velvet has a seemingly impossible dream, to own a spirited racehorse and then to enter him in the Grand National race, Mrs. Brown finds a way to help her, both financially and emotionally, that is one of the most touching and inspiring ever put on film.
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