There Must Be a Pony (1986)

After enjoying a nearly 40 year friendship, Elizabeth and Robert Wagner finally had the opportunity to work together on There Must Be a Pony, which R.J. not only appeared in, but also executive produced. Their decades-long friendship began when the two met as teenagers at one of Roddy McDowall’s Sunday pool parties. Later, Elizabeth and her husband at the time, Eddie Fisher, would spend time with R.J. and his wife, Natalie Wood, who Elizabeth also counted as a dear friend. “Nat and I were great friends,” Elizabeth explained. “The four of us would spend weekends together. It was R.J. and Natalie and the gentleman I was married to at the time.” The four friends even made the Super Chief train journey together from Los Angeles to the East coast. “The train ride was so luxurious, a great way to get away from things,” Elizabeth recalled.

“We understand each other,” Elizabeth said of their friendship while promoting the film. “We don’t have to see each other for months at a time. But when we do see each other, it is mid-thought, mid-sentence, a continuation.”

“I have been with Elizabeth through the high points and low points,” R.J. said, “and she has been with me.”

Mickey Rooney, who starred opposite Elizabeth in National Velvet, makes a cameo appearance in the film as himself, who happened to be one of the fictional Marguerite Sydney’s former co-stars. The setting is, aptly enough, a racetrack!