Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940
Approved
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, and Lewis Stone in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)

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Comedy Family Romance

Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked i... Read allJudge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. However, he finds the high society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

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Trivia
This was the ninth of 16 Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney; and the fourth pairing of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

Goofs
Andy's "achievement of the month" is shown as happening in November, but the school's monthly magazine's report on it just days later is in the May issue.

Quotes
Judge James K. 'Jim' Hardy: When a boy's stupid... he's just stupid, that's all.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940)

Soundtracks
Alone
Music by Nacio Herb Brown
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Played on a record and sung by Judy Garland

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Featured review

7/10

Rooney And Garland Reunite

Just two years after "Love Finds Andy Hardy", Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland meet again in another tale about Carvel's most dramatic high schooler. In this film, girlfriend Polly Benedict has slowed his roll and ridiculed Andy's obsession with a New York debutante named Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). When Judge Hardy decides to take the entire family to NYC while he confronts a big city law firm over financial commitments due an orphanage, Andy (Rooney) reconnects with Betsy Booth (Garland) and contrives to meet the mysterious and desirable Miss Fowler.

At this point the story bogs down. But two somehow-interconnected stories emerge: the benefits of living in the American Republic and Andy's despondency at being a backwater fish from a small pond.

The first part might be expected in a nation perched on the philosophical precipice of isolationism versus involvement in the ongoing war in Europe. Judge Hardy delivers a stirring speech that defines equality as equal opportunity under the law.

The party of the second part---Andy---somehow finds a way through his gloom and returns to Carvel a wiser man, where he confronts Polly, hoping to put their relationship back on track.

The best part of this film might be the musical interludes by Miss Garland. But Rooney is the driver of this and all the Andy Hardy films, and he does not disappoint. If you enjoy the Garland-Rooney vehicles, be sure to watch "Girl Crazy".