Rand BrooksFilmography

Double Indemnity

Synopsis: It goes without saying that the 1973 TV-movie version of Double Indemnity doesn't come within shouting distance of the classic 1944 theatrical-movie version. Still, the basic story is a solid one, and the actors are eager to please. Richard Crenna plays the old Fred MacMurray role of Walter Neff Read More

Adam-12: Log 134: Child Stealer

Synopsis: Today's shift finds mobile officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) chasing after a man suspected of kidnapping a child. The two cops also deal with an escaped prisoner, and with a vicious gang of armored-car hijackers. Featured in the supporting cast is venerable character Read More

Adam-12: Log 74: Light Duty

Synopsis: Sidelined by a fractured wrist, Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) pulls what he regards as "light duty", a night-desk shift with attractive policewoman Doris Mills (Beth Brickell). But things go from light to dark in a hurry when the two officers are confronted by a armed sniper who demands that Read More

Bonanza: Four Sisters from Boston

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Vera Miles, Lyn Edgington

Synopsis: The title characters in this episode of Bonanza are the Lowell sisters: Ara (Vera Miles, Gabrielle (Lyn Edgington, Lorraine (Madeline Mack) and Heather (Melinda Plowman). Having inherited their uncle's ranch, the ladies arrive in Virginia City to discover that all they've received is a pile of Read More

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the oppressive influence of an outlaw and his evil gang. One couple knows the gunslinger's true avocation and they talk him into working as a lawman and putting one of the crooks Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Impetuous Imp

Synopsis: While on a fishing vacation, Perry (Raymond Burr) rescues novelist Diana Carter (Bonnie Jones) from a watery grave. He must then save Diana from a charge of being an accomplice in a $50,000 jewel theft. And THEN, it's up to Perry to clear the girl on a charge of murdering Addison Powell. A forged Read More

Petticoat Junction: What's a Trajectory?

Synopsis: Arthur O'Connell guest stars as William Lawrence, a new arrival at the Shady Rest Hotel. Clearly a man of wealth, Lawrence claims to be a rocket scientist. But ever-suspicious Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan) is convinced that Lawrence is actually a wanted bank robber--and, characteristically, he makes Read More

Combat!: Crossfire

Synopsis: Saunders (Vic Morrow) levels some serious charges against Pvt. Stevens (Don Gordon), a soldier whom he first met on D-Day. Never mind that Stevens has been twice-decorated with the Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross: Saunders has accused the private of causing the deaths of two other Read More

The Munsters: Tin Can Man

Synopsis: The Board of Education warns that Munsters that little Eddie's grades must improve immediately or he'll be expelled. To this end, Eddie (Butch Patrick) builds a robot for an upcoming science fair. Alas, the robot is accidentally sabotaged just before its unveiling--compelling Herman (Fred Gwynne) Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Decadent Dean

Synopsis: Perry (Raymond Burr) visits the campus of Manzana Valley Prep School to confer with his client, Dean Aaron Stuart (Milton Selzer). Someone is working very hard to destroy Dr. Stuart's reputation, and that someone turns out to be assistant dean Tobin Wade (H.M. Wynant)--whose own reputation has Read More

Stagecoach to Dancers' Rock

Synopsis: When a passenger seems to develop small pox, she and five fellow travellers are kicked off a stagecoach and stranded in the desert. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Comanche Station

Actors: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust

Synopsis: The last of the Randolph Scott/ Budd Boetticher collaborations, Comanche Station stars Scott as another "lone rider" who takes on a highly dangerous job. Scott must rescue Nancy Gates from her Comanche captors and return the woman to her husband. He is assisted by a trio of criminals, who are out Read More

Maverick: The Rivals

Synopsis: In another of scriptwriter Marion Hargrove's "westernizations" of classic literary material, this episode is based on 18th century British playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan's drawing-room comedy "The Rivals". In the original 1775 play, two young men, Jack Absolute and Ensign Beverly, exchange Read More

The Last Hurrah

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Dianne Foster, Pat O'Brien, Basil Rathbone, John Carradine

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy stars in John Ford's sentimental adaptation of Edwin O'Connor's novel about the final campaign of a big city mayor, loosely based upon the life of Boston politician James Curley. Tracy is Frank Skeffington, the political boss of an Eastern city dominated by Irish-Americans. Read More

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 05

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

Maverick: Stampede

Synopsis: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. makes the first of several guest appearances as Dandy Jim Buckley, a gentleman gambler best described as "Bret Maverick without scruples." After they're both tossed off a riverboat, Jim and Bret (James Garner) head to Deadwood in hopes of getting even with bare-knuckle boxer Read More

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 04

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 03

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

To Hell and Back

Actors: Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Susan Kohner, Charles Drake, Jack Kelly, Gregg Palmer

Synopsis: The highly variable Audie Murphy delivers his best screen performance as "himself" in Universal's To Hell and Back. Based on the star's autobiography, this is the story of how Murphy became America's most-decorated soldier during WW II. After dwelling a bit on Murphy's hard-scrabble Texas Read More

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 02

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin: Season 01

Actors: Rin Tin Tin, Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks

The Man from the Black Hills

Actors: Johnny Mack Brown, James Ellison, Rand Brooks, Lane Bradford, I. Stanford Jolley

Synopsis: As other "B"-western series kept dropping like flies in 1952, Johnny Mack Brown kept grinding 'em out for Monogram. In Man From Black Hills, Johnny tries to help locate his saddle pal Jim Fallan's (James Ellison) long-lost father. Arriving in a small mining town, Johnny and Jim discover that Jim's Read More

The Gunman

Synopsis: The West is scared by an infamous gunslinger in this western film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Waco

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, I. Stanford Jolley, Pamela Blake, Paul Fierro, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: The Waco depicted in this film is a wide-open Texas frontier town, in desperate need of a strong authority figure to clean out the criminal element. The man needed is the man found: Matt Boone, played by Wild Bill Elliot. Though himself a fugitive from justice (he killed a man in self-defense) Read More

Montana Incident

The Steel Fist

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kristine Miller, Harry Lauter, Rand Brooks, Byron Foulger

Synopsis: Steel Fist was produced by William F. Broidy and Wesley Barry, the same team responsible for TV's Wild Bill Hickok series. Roddy McDowall stars as Erik, an idealistic young student in an unnamed Iron Curtain country. Pursued by the communist police for speaking his views, Erik is sheltered by the Read More

The Maverick

Actors: William "Wild Bill" Elliott, Myron Healey, Phyllis Coates, Richard Reeves, Terry Frost

Synopsis: In this "Wild Bill Elliot" western, Elliot and two other lawmen (Myron Healey and Robert Bray) are assigned to take three outlaws to prison. Along the way, they agree to escort Phyllis Coates and her grandmother Florence Lake through Indian territory. Everyone's safety is threatened when one of Read More

Behind Southern Lines

Yukon Manhunt

Synopsis: In this North Woods adventure, the Mounties investigate a series of payroll robberies and discover that it is an inside job. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Heart of the Rockies

Actors: Roy Rogers, Penny Edwards, Gordon Jones, Ralph Morgan

Synopsis: Roy Rogers and Trigger, "The Smartest Horse in the Movies," enjoy above-the-title billing in Heart of the Rockies. This time, Rogers (playing himself) is pitted against Andrew Willard, a crooked but very powerful landowner, played with relish by Ralph Morgan. Opposing the construction of a new Read More

The Cimarron Kid

Actors: Audie Murphy, Yvette Dugay, Beverly Tyler, John Hudson, James Best

Synopsis: Though director Budd Boetticher is best known to western fans for his collaborative efforts with star Randolph Scott, Boetticher also turned out several worthwhile actioners with other cowboy stars. The Cimarron Kid stars Audie Murphy in the title role. After being falsely accused of a payroll Read More

Riding High

Actors: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford, Raymond Walburn

Synopsis: Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired Read More

The Vanishing Westerner

Actors: Monte Hale, Paul Hurst, Aline Towne, Roy Barcroft, Arthur Space

Synopsis: Despite its somewhat lofty, Zane Grey-flavored title, The Vanishing Westerner is a modest Republic western, off and on the screen in about an hour. Cowboy hero Monte Hale is accused of the murder of sheriff Arthur Space. The principal accuser is Space's look-alike British cousin, who stirs the Read More

Ladies of the Chorus

Synopsis: In her second film appearance, Marilyn Monroe stars as Peggy Martin, a second-generation showgirl who begins a romance with a rich young man (Randy Brooks), an action that strains her relationship with her mother (Adele Jurgens). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wyoming Bandit

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Trevor Bardette, Victor Kilian, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Allan "Rocky" Lane finds himself linked up with an unexpected ally in Wyoming Bandit. That ally is none other than the title character, a hard-bitten outlaw named Wyoming Dan (Trevor Bardette). The bad guy has briefly turned "good" in hopes that Lane will help him find his son's murderer. To do Read More

Black Midnight

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Damian O'Flynn, Kirby Grant, Gordon Jones, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Black Midnight was the fourth of six Monogram films co-produced by actor Roddy McDowall. The film stars McDowall as Scott Jordan, whose mission in life is to train a wild stallion named Black Midnight. Subplots include a romance between Jordan and pretty Cindy Baxter (Lynn Thomas), and the Read More

Strange Gamble

Actors: Andy Clyde

Synopsis: In this the final Hopalong Cassidy Western, Hoppy (William Boyd), California Carlson (Andy Clyde), and Lucky Jenkins (Rand Brooks) search for the leaders of a counterfeiting ring after receiving a tip from an anonymous source whose signature is a pencil sketch of a comet. In Silver City, they help Read More

Sinister Journey

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: The long-running "Hopalong Cassidy" series trudged on with its 61st entry, Sinister Journey. William Boyd, looking pretty much the same as he did when the series started in 1936, is back as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde and Rand Brooks as his cohorts California and Lucky, respectively. Like most of the Read More

Silent Conflict

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Virginia Belmont, Earl Hodgins

Synopsis: Hypnotism and mind control take center stage in this unusual latter-day "Hopalong Cassidy" series entry produced by its star, William Boyd. Having delivered a herd of cattle for the Cattlemen's Association, Hoppy (Boyd) and California (Andy Clyde) are confronted by a strangely moody Lucky Jenkins Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Selena Royle, José Ferrer, Ward Bond, Robert H. Barrat, Francis L. Sullivan, Jimmy Lydon, Cecil Kellaway, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc, the 15th-century French peasant girl who led the French in battle against the invading English, becoming a national hero. When she was captured, tortured, and ultimately executed by the English, she Read More

The Dead Don't Dream

Actors: Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, John Parrish, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: The Last Chance Inn, the main locality in this latter-day Hopalong Cassidy Western, certainly lives up to its name. A prospector has mysteriously disappeared after spending a night there and now Lucky Jenkins' (Rand Brooks) prospective "uncle-in-law," another guest, has vanished as well. Hopalong Read More

Sundown in Santa Fe

Synopsis: This western deals with an actual historical event. The story follows the endeavors of a heroic fellow who captures the mastermind behind a plot to assassinate President Lincoln. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

False Paradise

Actors: Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: Returning to the scenic splendor of Lone Pine's Alabama Hills, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) tries to help retired entomology professor Alonzo Larson (Joel Friedkin) and his daughter Anne (Elaine Riley), who have purchased a seemingly worthless piece of land, The Paradise Ranch. Larson has paid Read More

Borrowed Trouble

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, John Kellogg

Synopsis: "This town ain't big enough to hold both of us," saloon owner Dink Davis (Cliff Clark) tells his new rival Steve Mawson (John Phillips) in the opening of this lighthearted Hopalong Cassidy Western. Schoolmarm Lucy Abbott (Anne O'Neal) couldn't agree more; in fact, the spinsterish teacher is Read More

Dangerous Venture

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Fritz Leiber, Douglas Evans

Synopsis: A group of archeologists is sent to the American Southwest to investigate a tribe's claims that they are descendants of the ancient Aztecs. However, a gang of crooks are trying to discredit the claim by dressing up as Indians to commit crimes. Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) must rescue the Read More

Unexpected Guest

Actors: Rand Brooks, Andy Clyde, Patricia Tate, John Parrish

Synopsis: Reading-of-the-will melodramatics substitute for the usual B-Western shootin' and fightin' in this late entry in the long running Hopalong Cassidy series, which has sidekick California Carlson (Andy Clyde) as one of six heirs to the supposedly worthless Baxter property. During the reading of Hiram Read More

Kilroy Was Here

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Wanda McKay, Frank Jenks, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: The popular wartime catchphrase "Kilroy Was Here" was affixed to this minor campus comedy. Jackie Cooper plays peripatetic ex-sailor John J. Kilroy, who is assumed to be the Kilroy. Once John finds himself in college on the GI bill, he finds that his fame is also a curse: none of the "right" Read More

Marauders

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Ian Wolfe, Dorinda Clifton

Synopsis: There's oil in them thar hills in this late entry in the long-running Hopalong Cassidy Western series. Or, rather, there is oil under an abandoned church in the ghost town of Coltsville. On their way back to the Bar 20, Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) and his two sidekicks, California Carlson Read More

Hoppy's Holiday

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Victor Jory, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes, Leonard Penn

Synopsis: Although Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) agrees to remain at Mesa City for a couple of days so that California (Andy Clyde) and Lucky (Rand Brooks) can partake in various amusements, the stay becomes more of an ordeal than a holiday when the local bank is robbed during a square-dance competition. Read More

Fool's Gold

Actors: Stephen Barclay, Bob Bentley, William "Hopalong" Boyd, Rand Brooks, Andy Clyde

Synopsis: The second of William Boyd's self-produced "Hopalong Cassidy" films, Fool's Gold maintains the standards set by the first (Devil's Playground), though it's a step down from the vintage Cassidy films of the late 1930s-early 1940s. Once again, Hoppy (Boyd) is teamed with California Carson (Andy Read More

Devil's Playground

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Elaine Riley, Robert Elliott

Synopsis: After a two-year absence, the "Hopalong Cassidy" western series returned with The Devil's Playground. William Boyd, now executive-producer of the series, returns as Hoppy, with Andy Clyde as California Carson and Rand Brooks as Lucky Jenkins. More plot-oriented than earlier Cassidy efforts, Devil's Playground Read More

The Lady in the Dark

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a popular fashion magazine. Despite her beauty, wealth, and success in business, Liza is unhappy and out of sorts. And while three men are vying for her affections Read More

Air Force

Actors: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Harry Carey, Charles Drake

Synopsis: On December 6, 1941, a squadron of nine B-17 bombers takes off for Hickam Field, HI. The crew of the Mary Ann, including two new men, assistant radio man Private Chester (Ray Montgomery) and gunner Sergeant Joe Winocki (John Garfield), assembles for the flight, and in the first 20 minutes, the Read More

High Explosive

Actors: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Barry Sullivan, Rand Brooks, Barbara Lynn

Synopsis: High Explosive is a Hollywood "B" precursor to the later, more critically lionized The Wages of Fear. Chester Morris plays a two-fisted trucker who takes on a deadly assignment: Transporting nitroglycerin over bumpy terrain. As half the supporting cast is blown to smithereens, Morris persists in Read More

Valley of Hunted Men

Synopsis: Fugitive Nazis threaten to take over the Wyoming range in this Three Mesqueteers outing, which also warns about the danger of blithely assuming that every German-American is a fifth columnist. Which is exactly what rancher Clem Parker (Hal Price) does when learning that a couple of escaped Axis Read More

The Sombrero Kid

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Lynn Merrick, John James, Joel Friedkin, Rand Brooks

Synopsis: A well-acted, well-paced entry in the Don "Red" Barry Western series from Republic Pictures, The Sombrero Kid featured the diminutive Barry as Jerry Holden, the apparent son and heir of veteran lawman Tom Holden (Robert Homans). But when Holden Sr. is killed by one of Banker Martin's (Joel Read More

The Son of Monte Cristo

Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Lionel Royce

Synopsis: Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis Hayward plays the title character, Edmond Dantes Jr., who while posing as an epicene dandy works tirelessly to topple the regime of fascistic Balkan despot Count Gurko (George Read More

Lady Scarface

Actors: Dennis O'Keefe, Frances Neal, Judith Anderson, Mildred Coles, Eric Blore

Synopsis: A partial remake of 1936's Wanted: Jane Turner, Lady Scarface is a seedy but entertaining tour de force for the great Judith Anderson. Embittered over the ugly facial scar which covers the left side of her face, a woman named Slade becomes a criminal mastermind. The cops have no idea that Read More

Life with Henry

Actors: Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: The box-office success of Paramount's What a Life (1939), coupled with the popularity of the spinoff Henry Aldrich radio series, inspired the studio to launch an "Aldrich" series of its own. The inagural entry was Life with Henry, with Jackie Cooper repeating his role as befuddled teenager Henry Read More

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Actors: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement, Miss Bishop's former students wonder why their beloved teacher never Read More

Jennie

Actors: Virginia Gilmore, William Henry, George Montgomery, Ludwig Stossel, Dorris Bowdon

Synopsis: Virginia Gilmore stars as Jennie, the daughter-in-law of German-born shoe manufacturer Ludwig Stossel. The stubborn manufacturer refuses to grow with the time, continuing to run his business and his household with outmoded and oppressive "old country" methods. Jennie counters this attitude by Read More

Double Date

Actors: Edmund Lowe, Una Merkel, Peggy Moran, Rand Brooks, Tommy Kelly

Synopsis: In this drama two children return from their separate boarding schools to a nasty surprise. The father of one is romantically involved with the other's aunt. The two immediately try to destroy the love affair. They all get involved with chasing some thieves and end up in jail. There the judge Read More

Laddie

Actors: Joan Leslie, Tim Holt, Virginia Gilmore, Joan Carroll, Spring Byington, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: 1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in 1935, was directed by no less than George Stevens). Tim Holt plays the title character, a good-natured Indiana farmer who falls in love with immigrant English girl Pamela (Virginia Gilmore Read More

Northwest Passage

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton

Synopsis:
Kenneth Roberts' fact-based novel Northwest Passage would seem too raw and explicit a book to be considered for an MGM film adaptation-much less one in Technicolor. Amazingly, MGM retained many of the grim episodes from the Roberts' novel, though - thanks to the Hays Code - most are discussed Read More

A Girl From Avenue "A"

Actors: Jane Withers, Kent Taylor, Kay Aldridge, Elyse Knox, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: In this comedy drama based on Shaw's play Pygmalion, and set in the 1800s, a wealthy playwright rescues a beautiful street urchin from the cruel city streets to use her as an authentic source of street language for his newest play. His whole family gets in an uproar when she comes to stay, but Read More

Florian

Actors: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: Winfield Sheehan, former head of Fox studios, owned the only Austrian Lippizan horses in the U.S. In 1940, MGM bought the rights to the Felix Salten novel Florian, all about the Lippanzers. When the film was made, the producer was Winfield Sheehan. Coincidence? We don't think so. At any rate, the Read More

And One Was Beautiful

Actors: Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir, Billie Burke, Ann Morriss

Synopsis: Social-climbing Helen (Jean Muir) sends her less-pretentious younger sister Kate (Laraine Day) to a party in her stead, and there Kate strikes up a friendship with wealthy playboy Ridley Crane (Robert Cummings), but later, he clearly prefers Helen. One night he gets drunk, so Helen drives him Read More

Babes in Arms

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Charles Winninger, Guy Kibbee, June Preisser

Synopsis: This fun-filled spin-off of the Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical by the same name, features Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as two young children of vaudevillian parents who aren't included in their parents travels, so they set out to produce a show of their own. Rooney's the driver here and he's up Read More

The Old Maid

Actors: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan

Synopsis: When Zoë Akins' play The Old Maid (based on a novel by Edith Wharton) won the 1934-1935 Pulitzer Prize, the selection was roundly condemned by critics, who felt that Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour was more deserving, but had lost because of its lesbian theme. Certainly, Akins' story of the Read More

Dramatic School

Actors: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner, Genevieve Tobin

Synopsis: Viennese-born Luise Rainer plays a young Parisian girl who attends an exclusive drama school, working nights at a factory to pay the tuition. Despite the jealousies of her fellow students, Luise allows nothing to discourage her from her goal to become as great an actress as her idol (Gale Sondergaard Read More

Love Finds Andy Hardy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden

Synopsis: The third of MGM's Andy Hardy series (discounting the "pilot" film, A Family Affair) stars, as ever, Mickey Rooney as the teenaged protagonist. Andy finds himself in dutch with girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) when he agrees to escort his best friend's gal, Cynthia Potter (Lana Turner). Read More