With Andy Hardy Comes Home, Mickey Rooney hoped to revive the character -- and the movie series -- that had brought him fame...
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Mother Hardy
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1958
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Nobody sits on the fence so far as The Big Hangover is concerned. Leonard Maltin considers it "predictable, as well as silly...
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Martha Belney
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1950
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1949
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This fact -based western follows a soft-spoken railroad detective (Alan Ladd) as he brings a murderous ring of robbers to...
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1948
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For his first post-WWII starring film, 26-year-old Mickey Rooney returned to familiar territory in Love Laughs at Andy Hardy....
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Mrs. Hardy
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1946
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In this comedy, a spoiled, temperamental and filthy rich aunt is committed to an asylum by her nephew after he learns that...
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Mary Jane Baxter
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1946
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Dana Andrews -- in one of the best performances of his career -- plays Logan Stuart, a bold, ambitious general store and...
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1946
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College boy Andy continues his studies in this comedy. Well, at least he should be studying. Unfortunately, he seems to be...
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Mrs. Emily Hardy
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1944
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Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's...
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Mrs. Emily Hardy
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1942
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MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes...
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Mrs. Emily Hardy
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1942
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Number ten in MGM's heart-warming (and immensely profitable) "Andy Hardy" series was the 1941 entry Life Begins for Andy...
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Mrs. Emily Hardy
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1941
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences...
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Mrs. Kahly
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1941
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With a little extra effort, Washington Melodrama might have passed muster as an A picture. Frank Morgan stars as millionaire...
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1941
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Andy is ready to graduate from high school, and, trying to be a big man, he hires a pretty woman to be his social secretary....
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Mrs. Hardy
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1941
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MGM was doing so well in 1941 that it could afford the occasional "prestige" film with little box-office appeal. Based on the...
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1941
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All that MGM's Ziegfeld Girl lacks is Technicolor; otherwise, the film has talent and "sock" entertainment value in...
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1941
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The title I'll Wait for You effectively gives away the ending of this MGM second feature. Robert Sterling plays a gangster on...
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Mrs. Miller
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1941
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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1941
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The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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1940
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In this interesting drama, a highly respected straight-arrow Irish cop is pleased when his son follows him onto the force....
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Mary Madden
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1939
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This sixth installment in MGM's "Andy Hardy" series is among the best, thanks in great part to the breezy direction of...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1939
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The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs....
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Mrs. Hardy
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1939
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If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1939
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Contrary to popular belief, the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald Technicolor confection Sweethearts is not based on the 1913...
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1938
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The sequel to the first Andy Hardy picture, A Family Affair, this light comedy stars Mickey Rooney in the role that would...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1938
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Hold That Kiss is a cute story cutely played by the irresistably cute Maureen O'Sullivan. She plays working girl June Evans,...
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1938
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Test Pilot is one of those irresistible MGM potboilers of the 1930s that coast along on sheer star power. Clark Gable plays a...
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1938
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Love may be a headache, but without it, how would MGM programmers like this one ever have been made? Franchot Tone is cast as...
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1938
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The title tells the story in this fourth of MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) takes his family to the...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1938
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Mrs. Hardy
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1938
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The Hardys are off to Washington DC in this third entry in MGM's "Hardy Family" series. Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been...
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Mrs. Hardy
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1938
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Pulp fiction writer Max Brand's 1936 creation Dr. Kildare made his screen debut in the amiable person of Joel McCrea in this...
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1937
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Warner Bros.' resident singing cowboy, the amiable Dick Foran, warbles "The Prairie Is My Home" and "When the Cowboy Takes a...
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1937
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In this lively musical, an eccentric philanthropist's will dictates that four people receive $5,000 with the stipulation...
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1937
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Akim Tamiroff, Paramount Pictures' resident crime lord, runs all illegal gambling activities in a major city. Reporter...
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1937
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Paramount's answer to Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) also involved mutiny and romance on the high seas. Gary Cooper stars as...
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1937
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Paramount's "Bulldog Drummond" series got off to a start with 1937's Bulldog Drummond Escapes. Up-and-coming Ray Milland...
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1937
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Mrs. Swain
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1937
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At the time of its release, Polo Joe was critically lambasted as the worst Joe E. Brown starrer to date. Compared to his...
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1936
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Briefly breaking away from her high-gloss modern soap operas, Kay Francis stars as Florence Nightingale in this reverent...
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1936
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In this bedroom farce, a writer rails against marriage and touts the benefits of staying single. He then convinces his...
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1936
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Sinclair Lewis's 1920 novel Main Street came to the screen in 1936 from Warner Bros. under this rather more mundane title....
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1936
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