Starting in 1926 at the age of six right to the end of his life. Nov 09, 20 in a sequel to the popular film series, andy hardy, now a middleaged married man with kids, returns home to carvel to negotiate a land deal. The authors of these essays are experts in film history, and their works appear in books, newspapers, magazines and online. I saw this with full knowledge of the andy hardy lore having seen them on tv. Andy hardy comes home 1958 the movie database tmdb. Follow the misadventures of americas original teenage sensation. Instead of the end, this film concludes with a title card saying to be continued. He has received multiple awards, including a juvenile academy award, an honorary academy award. Follow the misadventures of americas original teenage sensation, andy hardy, from his humble beginnings in a family affair through his girlcrazed college comingofage to his bittersweet return to his beloved hometown of carvel as a grown man in this concluding volume of the complete series collection starring mickey rooney. That final film in the series, made five years after the death of lewis stone, brought the remaining hardy family members. Andy hardy comes home aunt milly forrest 1958 suspicion mrs. She had a long career starring and costarring in films, playing polly benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the andy hardy series, and as one of scarlett oharas sisters in the film. Esther jane williams was born on august 8, 1921 in inglewood, california. In this installment, andy is now a grown man working as a lawyer at an aviation firm on the west coast where he lives with.
Now working as an attorney for a major corporation, andy hardy mickey rooney takes his wife, jane patricia breslin, and their two kids on a trip to his home town, where they reunite with andy. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl. In this installment, andy is now a grown man working as a lawyer at an aviation firm on the west coast where he lives with his wife jane patricia breslin and. Andy hardy comes home cast and crew cast photos and info. The final installment, andy hardy comes home, would be made 12 years later 1958 in a failed attempt to revive the franchise. Andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself. With mickey rooney, patricia breslin, fay holden, cecilia parker.
It was made 12 years after the previous hardy film, and was an attempt to revive what had once been an enormously popular series. Andy hardy comes home 1958 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors. This story presents a middleaged andy who is the head of his own. It is the 16th and final film in the andy hardy series, with mickey rooney reprising his signature role. The actor was then cast in the lead role of andy hardy in a family affair 1937, which spanned to another series of movies, ending with andy hardy comes home 1958. Andy panda mousie comes home a walter lantz cartoon.
Judge hardy had hoped that his son would go to college and study law, but andy isnt sure thats what he wants to do so he heads off to new york city to find a job. Brief descriptions of each registry title can be found here, and expanded essays are available for select titles. Rooney performed the role of andy hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s. Brief descriptions and expanded essays of national film registry titles. The last mile is a 1959 american drama film directed by howard w. Hardys dad judge hardy lewis stone is absent but lewis stone passed away in 1953, 5 years before this film.
Koch, mickey rooney, patricia breslin, fay holden march 22, 2020 andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics. In this concluding volume of the andy hardy film collection from the warner archive collection youll get a chance to. Andy hardy remained wildly popular because boys of the period could identify with his social, money, and girl troubles. He is known for his work on shirley temples storybook 1958, general electric theater 1953 and the ransom of red chief. Andy hardy comes home was the final film using characters created by aurania rouverol and featured in the long running and extremely successful mgm hardy family series that began with the 1937 mgm production a family affair see afi catalog of feature films, 193140. Approved 1h 20min comedy 1 june 1959 sweden andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics. And a lot of the magic was the town of carvel itself. Approved 1h 20min comedy 1 june 1959 sweden andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip. Hardy and others were based on characters in the play skidding by aurania rouverol. Andy hardy comes home 1958 after a twelve year absence from mgms popular hardy family series that helped make him a household name, mickey rooney reprised his role as the eternally boyish and lovable andy hardy for the 16th and final time in andy hardy comes home 1958. Susanna tv series 1959 1 episode, 1959 andy hardy comes home 1958 cricket. Rooney and mgm were able to round up some of the old regular cast members for. Andy hardy comes home directed by howard koch, howard w.
Andy hardy comes home 1958 mickey rooney and pat cawley in andy hardy comes home 1958 andy hardy comes home. Actor mickey rooney, the diminutive screen dynamo of the 1930s. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival. Only the last film in the series, a belated sequel called andy hardy comes home 1958, was not a success. Andy hardy comes home 1958 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Join sign up keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Andrew andy hardy is a fictional character played by mickey rooney in a metrogoldwynmayer series of sixteen films from 1937 to 1946, and includes a final film released in 1958 in an unsuccessful attempt to continue the series. Andy hardy comes home 1958 stream and watch online. Andy hardy comes home 22nd december 1958 cinema 80 mins 1. All set to graduate from high school and he flunks his english exam in spite of the fact that aunt milly is his teacher, and that the judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary kathryn grayson in her screen debut. In a sequel to the popular film series, andy hardy, now a middleaged married man with kids, returns home to carvel to negotiate a land deal. Gina gillespies acting career took off when she was just five years old. Therese ann rutherford november 2, 1917 june 11, 2012 was a canadianamerican actress in film, radio, and television.
Mickey rooney tcm star of the month december 2010 immortal. With his high school graduation behind him, andy hardy decides that as an adult, its time to start living his life. At eight years old, teddy rooney had begun to follow in his fathers footsteps, having already amassed some television and film credits, including the doris day feature it happened to jane 1959. However, the film fell short of box office projections and the series did not resume. Check out this page for more updates on andy hardy comes home.
For fans of the hardy series, andy hardy comes home was a nostalgic trip down memory lane complete with clips from some of the earlier films as andy. With joey forman, jerry colonna, vaughn taylor, frank ferguson, teddy rooney. Hello and welcome to the andy hardy show, im your host andy hardy, this is a show about my journey to leave a cult i had been in for more than twenty years, had built. One odd thing about the andy hardy movies is that he doesnt seem to have any male friends, at least no male friends that last more than one movie. Andy hardy comes home is a 1958 hollywood comedy,drama film released on dec 22, 1958. Love laughs at andy hardy 1947 andy hardy comes home 1958 jones family film series every saturday night 1936 educating father 1936 back to nature 1936. With andy hardy comes home, mickey rooney hoped to revive the character and the movie series that had brought him fame and fortune back in the 1930s and 1940s. Gillespie worked on a variety of projects during her early entertainment career, including playhouse 90 cbs, 19561960 and andy hardy comes home 1958. This was the 15th, nexttolast andy hardy film produced. Dec 17, 2012 aunt milly was played by betty ross clarke in the third and fourth entries of the hardy series, but haden was around even before stone and holden hooked on with the series and also returned in 1958 for andy hardy comes home.
After a twelve year absence from mgms popular hardy family series that helped make him a household name, mickey rooney reprised his role as the eternally boyish and lovable andy hardy for the 16th and final time in andy hardy comes home 1958. Love laughs at andy hardy is a 1946 american film released by metrogoldwynmayer, directed by willis goldbeck and starring mickey rooney and lewis stone. Mgms 1937 adaptation of aurania rouverols play skidding, a family affair, proved such a stunning success that production commenced on a seriesinspired by it almost immediately. List of feature film series with 11 to 20 entries wikipedia. Rooney won two special academy awards for his film achievements. A433 mickey rooney frank ferguson andy hardy comes home 1958 photo.
Mickey rooney appeared in an incredible number of films in ten decades. Andy hardy gets spring fever was one of three hardy films released in 1939, a year which saw rooney begin by completing work on the adventures of huckleberry finn and the hardys ride high before starting in andy hardy gets spring fever. None of these has come to define a unique story, each is part of a larger situation that we see, as if the beginning and end of each story should be completed by the viewer. The film is a remake of a 1932 film of the same name starring preston foster. He received the juvenile academy award 1939, for his performance in boys town 1938. It is the 16th and final film in the andy hardy series, with mickey rooney reprising. Andy hardy, songwriter patricia breslin jane hardy fay holden mother hardy cecilia parker marian sara haden aunt milly joey forman bezzy anderson jerry colonna doc vaughn taylor thomas chandler frank ferguson mayor benson william leslie jack bailey tom duggan councilman warren jeanne baird sally anderson gina gillespie cricket jimmy bates chuck. Teddy rooney appeared with his father as the son of his dads legendary character now a grownup in andy hardy comes home 1958 and on a 1960 installment of general electric theater, and. Andy hardy is coming home to carvel from out west 12 years after the last hardy film. But nothing is mentioned in the film about what happened to andys dad.
Andy hardy comes home mickey rooney patricia breslin fay holden 1958 now a lawyer with a wife patricia breslin and family, andy mickey rooney saves his hometown from a greedy landowner. This film was also noteworthy for being the last to feature veteran character actor lewis stone. In a sequel to the popular film series, andy hardy, now a middleaged married man with kids, returns home. The original story plan was to have andy hardy be a judge, just like his father in the older films played by lewis stone, and married to longtime childhood sweetheart polly benedict played in the series by ann rutherford. Mickey rooney 1920 2014 was an american actor of film, television, broadway, radio, and vaudeville. Her youth was spent as a teenage swimming champion and she won three united states national championships. It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by william faulkner, first published in 1929. Mickey rooney biography and list of films movies database. With andy hardy comes home, mickey rooney hoped to revive the character and the movie series that had brought him fame and fortune back in the 1930s. The andy hardy films of the 30s and 40s had an abundance of humor, or at least good humor. A complete guide to all the new original series and films. The sound and the fury is a 1959 american drama film directed by martin ritt. Costarring fay holden blossoms in the dust and cecilia parker frankenstein, also continuing.
Dec 21, 2012 mgm kept their valuable property mighty busy. Let us know what youve done that caused this error, what browser you re using. The american film institute is grateful to sir paul getty kbe and the sir paul getty kbe estate for their dedication to the art of the moving image and their support for the afi catalog of feature films and without whose support afi would not have been able to achieve this historical landmark in this epic scholarly endeavor. Koch director van alexander composer created published usa. The film is also known under its american promotional title uncle andy hardy. Oscar and golden globewinner mickey rooney national. Because these films were high in entertainment value and featured plot elements to which the majority of american families could relate, the films were very popular fare. Oscar and golden globewinner mickey rooney national velvet continues his role as andy hardy. Susanna 1959 andy hardy comes home cricket hardy 1958 the loretta young show margy 1958. Early films in the series were about the hardy family as a whole, but later entries. In this installment, andy is now a grown man working as a lawyer at an aviation firm on the west coast where he lives with his wife jane patricia breslin and children.
Andy hardy comes home is a 1958 comedy film directed by howard w. Andy hardy comes home was a calculated attempt to capitalize on the series success by recreating a cinematic world in which, like the original series, realities like war, the atomic bomb and the race to space would be a distant second in filmgoers memory to andy hardy s fantasizing about judy garland and esther williams while attempting to. Thus, the andy hardy series ended with a to be continued, which indeed has yet to be continued. Andrew andy hardy is a fictional character played by mickey rooney in a. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of andy hardy comes home with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. Trailer for andy hardy comes home andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics. Archive collection line of hardtofind library and cult titles, has released the andy hardy film collection, volume 2, a fivedisc, t. Returning to his home town of carvel after several years absence, lawyer andy hardy brings his wife jane patricia breslin and two children andy jr. A432 mickey rooney frank ferguson joey forman andy hardy comes home 1958 photo. Andy hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
Or rather, as if there were no need to begin and end because, ultimately, this is nothing more than the conventional way of telling stories. It was an earlier version of tvs mayberry a gentle, peaceful place that anyone would love to call home. Sara haden charlotte walkers daughter and andy hardys. Released 1958, andy hardy comes home stars mickey rooney, patricia breslin, fay holden, cecilia parker the movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 20 min, and received a score of out of 100 on. Love laughs at andy hardy was the final in the original series in 1946 and then a dozen years later when mgm had fallen on hard times and was desperately trying to recreate some of its former glory came the 16th and last hardy family film andy hardy goes home which found mickey rooney returning to carvel with all the original family members. Teddy rooney, a former child actor and a son of mickey. If there is a male, he is usually an adversary or a rival for some girls attention who eventually comes to befriend andy in the end. Following is the complete schedule of 70 mickey rooney films airing. If anything this picture proves what thomas wolfe said about not being able to go home again. Jeanne baird full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Andy hardy, the original teen supreme, comes careening to your screen in the first of a series of collections. Beginning as a child actor, his career extended over 88 years, making him one of the most enduring performers in show business history. Andy hardy comes home 1958 andy hardy comes home 1958. Twelve years later, an attempt to revive the series with an older, wiser andy was made in 1958 with andy hardy comes home, but it turned out to be the final film in the series.
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