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Above we see Eliza- beth T aylor with the enchanting little toddlers who ap- . peared with her in i " The Light Fan- | tastic,” and on the left Elizabeth as a child when she won the lead in “ National Velvet.” da CHILD 'T'ALENTED and attractive children are the biggest scene stealers in the screen world ! At the top of this page we see some of the little dimpled darlings who appeared with Elizabeth Taylor in the M.G.M. film The Light Fantastic. Their ages ranged between three years and eight years. Elizabeth Taylor was herself a child star. London-born, she was sent to America during the war to stay with her maternal grandfather. She made her film debut in Lassie Come Home, and after one more film she was rocketed to fame with her role of Velvet in National Velvet. A blue-eyed little boy with a laughing face stole every- body’s heart when he appeared as the son of Joan Green- wood and Nigel Patrick in Young Wives' Tale. Although Tony Deamer was then only three years old it was not his first film. He had previously played the part of the little son of .Gregory Peck in Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N. Tony lives very close to the studio at Boreham Wood, where both these films were made. When his parents agreed to him appearing before the cameras they made sure that he should lead a perfectly normal home life w'hen not working at the studios. He proved to be a natural actor. His biggest scene, and one which caused a lot of merriment in the studio when it was being shot, was the bath-tub one in Young Wives' Tale, when he aimed a soaking sponge at Nigel Patrick and caught him full in the face ! Bunny Lewbell and Robert Lyden were the two youngsters who played the parts of the children of Doris Day and Danny Thomas in the Warner Bros, film I'll See You in My Dreams. Roberto Benzi was the ten-year-