Producer: Carey Wilson. An MGM Picture, copyright 1 December 1942 by Loew's Inc. New York opening at Loew's State: 11 January 1943. U.S. release: December 1942. Australian release: 23 December 1943. U.S. length: 8,281 feet (92 minutes). Australian length: 8,326 feet (92½ minutes).
SYNOPSIS: Shuttling between Ann Rutherford and Esther Williams, Andy Hardy finally decides on...
NOTES: In 1942, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a Special Award to MGM "for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films". this was Number 13 in the series. Film debut of Esther Williams.
COMMENT: Even with Esther Williams in the cast, this overload of homespun philosophy is pretty hard to take. MGM evidently didn't want Andy to get to college too soon. In fact, this film's final sequences are used as the beginning for the next film in the series, Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble. This film is really nothing more than some tedious padding and marking time. The direction of George B. Seitz is, as usual, aggressively nondescript.
Still 19-year-old Esther Williams is a very nice girl and she is most attractively photographed by photographer Folsey. It's an impressive debut. Her scenes positively sparkle. What a shame the rest of the movie is such a bore! Fortunately, I love Esther Williams.
SYNOPSIS: Shuttling between Ann Rutherford and Esther Williams, Andy Hardy finally decides on...
NOTES: In 1942, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a Special Award to MGM "for its achievement in representing the American Way of Life in the production of the Andy Hardy series of films". this was Number 13 in the series. Film debut of Esther Williams.
COMMENT: Even with Esther Williams in the cast, this overload of homespun philosophy is pretty hard to take. MGM evidently didn't want Andy to get to college too soon. In fact, this film's final sequences are used as the beginning for the next film in the series, Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble. This film is really nothing more than some tedious padding and marking time. The direction of George B. Seitz is, as usual, aggressively nondescript.
Still 19-year-old Esther Williams is a very nice girl and she is most attractively photographed by photographer Folsey. It's an impressive debut. Her scenes positively sparkle. What a shame the rest of the movie is such a bore! Fortunately, I love Esther Williams.