Plot Summary - In this one seventeen year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) has a big crush on New York society's Number 1 Deb, glamour girl Daphne Fowler (Diana Lewis). Andy keeps a secret scrapbook of magazine clippings featuring Miss Fowler, and he goes so far as to brag to his schoolmates Beezy and sometime steady girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) that he knows Daphne Fowler and she's crazy about him. Well, dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has to go to NYC on a case and decides to bring the whole family - as local small town paper headlines "Hardy Family Goes to New York" (wow - that is a small town!). Now Andy's pals want a photo of Andy with Daphne as proof (they even plan to use it on the school newspaper's cover). While in New York, Andy enlists the aid of old friend Betsy Booth (Judy Garland), now fifteen and still considered "just a kid" by Andy - Betsy still has that crush she had on him a couple years earlier (seen on film in "Love finds Andy Hardy"). Betsy loans him use of her parents car and chauffeur in his pursuit to meet Miss Fowler. He ends up getting the brush by the girl's mother, then spending a fortune - $37.25 - in the over-priced Club Sirocco where he dines on caviar served in an ice sculpture and hopes to see Miss Fowler at a benefit being held there later that evening. Nothing but troubles come to Andy, until helpful Betsy manages to save the day again.
Review - This is quite an entertaining film, with a cute plot - lots of fun. Judy Garland charms yet again and sings two songs in this, "Alone" and "I'm Nobody's Baby". With Judy's presence in this film (she certainly is the golden girl - her star quality just shines here, as usual), it's certainly one of the better ones of the series. And I love Mickey and Judy together - all their films are favorites for me! Line from Andy "Gosh how one's women do mount up!". Gotta love that guy. Rating - 8.5/10 stars
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