Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach: Harvey M. Love...
...Love-or, rather two and one-half loves-found Mickey Rooney yesterday at the University, and will continue to find him through Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines...
Walter Huston, in the role of Stuyvesant, superb actor that he is, finds himself way over his head without a singing voice. The love interest is carried adequately, but no more than that, by Jean Madden and Richard Kollmar; the script gives them nothing to do, and Mr. Kollmar faces tremendous odds when he is called upon to plead the ancient American axiom that men are not true men unless they think for themselves...
Mickey Rooney makes a bow tomorrow in the best Hardy family picture to date; "Love Finds Andy Hardy...
...with her governess, a cool, prim, middle-aged Englishwoman named Laura Testvalley. Laura decides that, since the girls have no chance in Manhattan, they may succeed in London. Their London triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth, is making a brilliant marriage herself. At this point The Buccaneers breaks off. Mrs. Wharton's notes suggest that...