Well you have come to the right place…. This Andy Hardy movie page comes from Dan. Dan suggested this page on our Request Hotline many moons ago…. Hardy and the rest of the Hardy family were based on characters in the play Skidding by Aurania Rouverol. Early films in the series focused on the entire Hardy family, but later films in the series focused on the character of Andy Hardy. Rooney was the Top Star in , and Hey Peter H.
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Lionel Barrymore, after making A Family Affair , suffered the accident that would limit him to playing handicapped men for the rest of his career. Lewis Stone took over as the Judge and played that role through the rest of the series proper. The studio also re-cast the roles of the judge's wife Emily and of Andy's regular girlfriend, Polly Benedict.
Other than that, and except for the occasional setting away from Carvel, the studios incurred very little expense and could make film after film on relatively low budgets.
George B. Seitz directed nearly all of the films—except that W. Koch directed the reunion film Andy Hardy Comes Home. Most of the stories took place in the judge's home town of Carvel, Idaho. However, many of the stories followed the Hardy family either to vacations or to special assignments or other adventures in Catalina , California ; Washington, DC , New York City , a ranch in Arizona , and Detroit , Michigan.
In addition, two of the films chronicled Andy Hardy's adventures as a college student in yet another unnamed community. The town of Carvel is fictitious, as is everything connected with it, including Judge James K.
Hardy and his family, and the story arc, such as it was see below , that the films depicted. As depicted in these films, Carvel had a population of 25,—large enough to have its own public school system and regularly to elect its own judge, but not much larger.
Carvel had its own railroad station, apparently with excellent railway connections to Washington, DC and to New York City.
Carvel also had its own airfield, which figured in only two of the films. Andy Hardy had a large number of girlfriends in the course of the series. The most regular girls he knew were:.
Oddly enough, he did not marry any of these three. At least one other prominent actor, Herbert Marshall , appeared in two of the films as the president of the college where Andy enrolled.
Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the Passed 85 min Comedy, Romance. Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. Meanwhile, Judge Hardy has his own problems when he gets conned into forming a phony aluminum corporation. Director: W. Approved 90 min Comedy. Judge Hardy, trying to find a relative of an aged couple to prevent them from losing their home, enlists the aid of his son Andy.
Approved 88 min Comedy, Family, Romance. However, he finds the high-society life too expensive and eventually decides that he liked it better back home. Passed min Comedy, Romance. All set to graduate from high school and Andy flunks his English exam - in spite of the fact that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love. Passed 95 min Adventure, Comedy, Romance. While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter. Passed 92 min Comedy, Family, Romance.
College-bound Andy blurts marriage proposals to his sweetheart Polly and her pert swimmer friend Sheila.
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