35mm

Love Finds Andy Hardy

George B. Seitz

When Andy needs a car and a date for the Christmas Eve dance, the visiting girl-next-door solves his problems. With Lana Turner.

DIRECTOR
George B. Seitz
YEAR
1938
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
92 minutes
FORMAT
35mm

Love Finds Andy Hardy rises above the standard not only of its predecessors, but also of most of [MGM’s] most expensive features”
Time

The fourth entry in the “Judge Hardy’s Family” series of sixteen films (1937-1958) is widely held as the most typical and successful of them all. Mickey Rooney’s hypermatic teenager ricochets from problem to problem: two dates (Lana Turner and Ann Rutherford) for the Christmas Eve dance, an eight-dollar (!) debt on his purchase of a used car, and the illness of his grandmother.

Visiting girl-next-door Garland sings three songs (including Roger Edens’ archetypical “In-Between”) and saves the day in her most endearing pre-Oz portrayal.

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