Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

Love Finds Andy Hardy

“Small town American was never as picture perfect and saccharine as it was in the Andy Hardy series. There’s the stoic but supportive father (Lewis Stone), fretful loving mother (Fay Holden), nicely combative older sister (Cecilia Parker), and Andy, the teenager on the right side of mischief-making (Mickey Rooney). They’re a postcard family in sitcom-level conundrums that feel stretched out to accommodate the 80-plus running times of their films.   Love Finds Andy Hardy is probably the most famous entry in the franchise, if for no other reason than the appearances of Judy Garland and Lana Turner, both on the cusp of superstardom. It’s also a quaint little charmer that’s all Norman Rockwell Americana and innocent shenanigans involving an irrepressible teenager boy. It’s a silly ” read more