Word: garlanding
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Because the last ten minutes are devoted to singing the title number in about five different ways, and because all five are top notch arrangements, the end of the film is considerably better than the middle. Mickey warbles in his not-too-bad torch voice, and Judy Garland establishes a real claim for Somebody's Singing Crown. Ah, her eyes...
...hegira to the big, bad city of New York with various digressions on love, glamour, and Americanism. As the Hardy series progresses, moppet Rooney seems to be developing into a menace of national proportions, and one of the cleverest actors on the screens today. His seene with Judy Garland driving through Central Park at dawn in a carriage is the highest point in a considerably above-sea-level picture...
...trust fund that supports the Carvel orphanage. Cocks of the walk in Carvel, the Hardys are beset but not conquered by plushy lawyers and frosty headwaiters. Everyone encounters preliminary tribulations before Andy gets to see Daphne through the intercession of the Hardys' old friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland). After the required footage, Andy wins his chastening triumph, the Judge wins his case...
...oldsters as Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore and Lewis Stone have discovered, Mickey Rooney thrives on his ability and determination to steal anything up to a death scene from a colleague. Some of Cinemactor Stone's heartiest chuckles may be explained by the fact that 17-year-old Judy Garland, growing prettier by the picture and armed for this one with two good songs, Alone and I'm Nobody's Baby, treats Mickey with a dose of his own medicine...
Buds Won't Bud, neatest, most Gershwinesque tune of the month, sung by the cinema's Judy Garland from a recent picture of hers...