Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

1940

Action / Comedy / Family / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 87% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 1101 1.1K

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Plot summary

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

Director

George B. Seitz Photo
George B. Seitz

Top cast

Ethelreda Leopold Photo
Ethelreda Leopold as Sirocco Club Dining Extra
Addison Richards Photo
Addison Richards as Mr. Benedict
Lester Dorr Photo
Lester Dorr as Photographer
Charles Trowbridge Photo
Charles Trowbridge as Davis, Fowler's Butler
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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1.46 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10

Judy Garland returns to the series

Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) has been bragging again, claiming that New York debutante Daphne Fowler is somebody that he knows, that she likes him, and that he must break up with Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) because of this attachment. When Judge Hardy must go to New York City to take care of an issue involving the estate of the benefactor of the Carvel Orphanage having stopped funding, the entire family is going with him. So Polly plans to embarrass Andy with the cover of the next copy of the High School magazine unless Andy returns with a photo of himself and Daphne together. Complications ensue.Andy pulls a bunch of bone-headed stunts trying to meet Ms. Fowler, the result being that rather than him being angry at himself for trying to plunge headlong into the adult world of New York society without the wisdom or knowledge to do so, he feels the problem is that he and his entire family are a bunch of "nobodies" who have no position in a place like New York, and therefore will always be nobodies. Has Andy's reticence to read prices on a menu turned him into a Marxist? The judge takes him to task and even more complications ensue.The real attraction here is Judy Garland who returns as Betsy Booth, a younger girl who has always had a crush on Andy. She's a better friend than he deserves and a real sticking point for me is that he doesn't seem to really appreciate her, even if he says that he does.Highlights include a couple of numbers by the effervescent Judy Garland, when she was a young fresh face at MGM. Also, the judge and Aunty Milly have a word over a conspiracy they have going to get Mrs. Hardy to accept a fur coat, showing that they really had a very good friendship going.
Reviewed by ilprofessore-1 7 / 10

Judy incandescent!

The Judy Garland many venerate today is the post-Plaza Theater (c.1951) Judy --damaged, pill-popping, alcoholic, overweight--the inspiration for female-impersonators everywhere because of her unique way of pouring out a broken heart in song while living life on the brink as Liza's mother. But the real Judy, the Judy who won America's heart back in the late 1930s is this incandescent teenager, eighteen years old at the time of this film. Those who find the later Judy's manner of acting and singing over-the-top, a bit vulgar, should listen here to the sheer beauty and purity of her soprano voice, her flawless enunciation and phrasing, her feeling for jazz, her utter simplicity. What's more she was a superb actress; witness the scene in the Central Park hansom cab with Mickey, so touchingly real and affecting. It is said that Stella Adler, who was to become Marlon Brando's teacher, but working for Arthur Freed at MGM at that time, was a great supporter of her amazing talent; perhaps Stella coached her acting. The story of this film is typically silly and dated but Judy and Mickey together are as always wonderful!
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