Lassie Come Home/Jane Eyre (1943, 1944)
These two films served notice that an eerily intense young talent was blossoming on the MGM backlot. Taylor isn't the star of either movie, but nobody paid attention to the other actors when she was on screen. In Lassie Come Home, she's the granddaughter of rich duffer Nigel Bruce, sympathetic to the homesick collie he buys and to the poor boy (played by lifelong Friend of Liz Roddy McDowall) who has to give the dog up. Taylor doesn't even get a credit in Jane Eyre, but her handful of scenes as Jane's serenely doomed schoolmate Helen Burns cast a spooky pall over the whole film.
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