Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)

LOVE FINDS ANDY HARDY  (1938)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: George B. Seitz
    Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland,
    Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford,
    Betsy Ross Clark, Lana Turner, Gene Reynolds
The fourth entry in the long-running Andy Hardy series finds our juvenile hero juggling two girls, with the big Christmas Eve dance just days away. He also needs eight dollars to seal the deal on a twenty-dollar car. (That's not to fill it with gas. It's to buy the car. Prices were different then.) This is considered one of the better Andy Hardy movies, but Rooney's incessant manic energy wears thin after a while, and you keep wanting to see less of him and more of Judy Garland, playing the new kid next door. Judy's musical numbers are the highlight.