The Andy Hardy Collection - Life Begins for Andy Hardy [VHS]
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VHS Tape Cover Information Actor: Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden, Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Sara Haden Director: George B. Seitz Cinematographer: Lester White Producer: George B. Seitz Editor: Elmo Veron Writer: Agnes Christine Johnston Writer: Aurania Rouverol Edition: VHS Tape Audio: English (Unknown) Format: NTSC Running Time: 101 minutes Release Date: 1992-04-01 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Publisher: MGM (Warner) Studio: MGM (Warner) |
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VHS Movie Reviews of The Andy Hardy Collection - Life Begins for Andy Hardy [VHS]
Movie Review: Andy Hardy's difficult transition from boyhood to manhood
Summary: 5 Stars
Life Begins For Andy Hardy (1941) is a rather dark film in an otherwise happy, idyllic series of pre-World War II Americana. Judy Garland makes her third and final appearance in this eleventh installment in the Hardy family saga, but her role is much less significant here than it was in her two previous appearances. Young Andy (Mickey Rooney) has just graduated from high school, but he has little time to celebrate his new freedom. His father, Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) compels him to think about his future, holding out the promise of a scholarship should he follow in his father's footsteps and study to become a lawyer. At the same time, Andy parts ways with his long-time girl Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) as she heads off to college. The prospect of seven years of schooling is not something Andy can get excited about, and his father agrees to let Andy go to New York, find a job, and then decide after a month whether he wants to continue working or go to college. A visiting Betsy Booth (Judy Garland) accompanies Andy back to the Big Apple but soon finds herself somewhat isolated from the boy she continues to pine after. Andy's experiences in New York change him forever and do much to transform him into a man. He struggles to find work, makes many mistakes, and finds himself virtually penniless at one point. The young man whose room he takes at a boarding house tips him off on the job he just quit, but Andy's application for employment gains him nothing but the interest of a potentially dangerous young lady with a penchant for getting what she wants from men. Jennitt Hicks (Patricia Dane) is a somewhat incomprehensible character to me; she is, in Betsy Booth's terminology, a "wolfess," and she does subtly sucker this new kid in the big city for a gift or two early on, yet she also helps him get a job and seems to at least care for the boy in a nurturing sense at one point later on. Betsy recognizes her for what she is early on, as does Judge Hardy when he first meets her. This gives rise to a father-son speech which may sound like the essence of old-fashioned silliness to modern-day viewers but strikes me as a truly insightful, important defense of morality and the vows of marriage. He speaks to his son about fidelity, advising him of the importance of being faithful to his future wife well before marriage. It's a moral lesson few would subscribe to today, but I found great words of wisdom in this heartfelt father-son exchange.
Andy Hardy hits a very low point during his time in New York, finding himself virtually penniless, but this pales in comparison to the feelings that grip him when a very real tragedy of the worst sort invades his little world. Betsy is there for Andy when and if he needs her, yet he still thinks of her as something of a child and is too proud to accept her help in most things. In the end, Andy's life-changing experience in the real world exerts a profound change upon him; he still retains some of that classic Andy Hardy spunk and free spirited nature, but he has in some very real ways become a man by the time this movie ends. There is a lesson for the youth of today in this movie, as its theme and message are universal in nature.
While Judy Garland sang several memorable songs in her first two Andy Hardy films, you will find no Garland musical numbers in Life Begins For Andy Hardy. She actually did record four numbers for this film, including a wonderful version of Easy to Love, but none of these songs made it into the final cut. Perhaps that was for the best, though, because her beautiful singing might well have taken something away from the overall darkness of a very serious film. Growing up is not an easy thing to do, as Andy Hardy finds out for himself. Thus, while this is among the less enjoyable of the Andy Hardy movies, it easily stands as one of the most important and valuable of them all.