Love Finds Andy Hardy
George B. Seitz
This film has no current screenings
“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.