Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
About Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Judge Hardy and Emily wait in Carvel for Andy, home after two years in the Army. He is set on Kay Wilson and barely notices Isobel Gonzales, the singer at the country club. At Wainwright College his friend Duke pairs him for a dance with Coffy Smith, who stands far taller than he does. Kay loves her guardian, Dane Kittridge, and Andy serves as best man at their wedding. He talks of dropping law for engineering work in South America until the judge sends him back to finish school, where he meets Isobel again.
Cast & crew
More about Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Robert Sisk produced the fifteenth Andy Hardy film, the last with Lewis Stone as the judge. Howard Dimsdale wrote the story, William Ludwig and Harry Ruskin the screenplay, from Aurania Rouverol's characters. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer first called it Uncle Andy Hardy. Loew's Inc. distributed it.
Themes
Background
It opened on Christmas Day 1946, with Andy back from the Army and enrolled at Wainwright instead of finishing high school in Carvel.
Making
While Rooney was in the Army, MGM developed Booth Tarkington's The Hardy Family's Country Cousin, in which Andy would only be mentioned. That film was dropped, and this became Rooney's first picture after discharge.
Reviews
Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, wrote that Andy was still "the same beanie-wearing puppy-lover who was having blonde trouble three years ago." He thought series fans might like the return to juvenile plots, and that anyone hoping for something about veterans' schooling would find a letdown.
Audiences
MGM's records list $1,656,000 earned in the United States and Canada and $733,000 elsewhere, a studio profit of $529,000.
Music
David Snell wrote the music.
Preservation
Copyright was not renewed. The film has been in the public domain in the United States since 1974.
Notes
- Lewis Stone's last film as Judge Hardy. He made ten more pictures before his death in 1953.
- Lina Romay plays Isobel Gonzales. Dorothy Ford plays Coffy Smith.
- Robert H. Planck photographed it. Cotton Warburton edited.
- MGM did not renew the copyright, so the film entered the public domain in the United States in 1974.
- A 2005 DVD runs 95 minutes.
Scenes
- Andy has to dance with Coffy Smith, who towers over him, and ends up friends with her anyway.
- At Kay's request he stands as best man when she marries Dane Kittridge.
- Judge Hardy talks him out of leaving for South America and back to Wainwright.
Also available
- Internet Archive (andy_hardy)