Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)

Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary: Directed by George B. Seitz. With Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford. All set to graduate from high school and Andy flunks his English exam – in spite of the fact that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.

“In the tenth of sixteen Andy Hardy films it was decided to finally let Mickey Rooney graduate from Carvel High School. That event centers around all the plot situations in Andy Hardyu0026#39;s Private Secretary.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHiring of a private secretary comes about through some bad bookkeeping by class president Mickey Rooney. When he hires a secretary, pretty Kathryn Grayson, the problems of her family which consists of father Ian Hunter and brother Todd Karns get intertwined with the Hardys. Fortunately wise old Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy is there to straighten it all out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis film was Kathryn Graysonu0026#39;s feature film debut and she has a couple of opera arias delivered in fine style. Naturally sheu0026#39;s the hit of the graduation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne of the big problems is that Rooney involved that he is almost doesnu0026#39;t graduate because he flunks the final exam in English. Making matters worse was the English teacher is his aunt Sara Haden. But of course that too is resolved.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWas there ever a place as perfect as Carvel? Next to it George Baileyu0026#39;s Bedford Falls is positively sin city and thatu0026#39;s before the angel does his thing.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEven Ann Rutherford as loyal girlfriend Polly Benedict takes Rooney back once again. Half, maybe more than half the Hardy films have Rooney getting involved with another girl like Grayson only to have Ann Rutherford take him back. Why she didnu0026#39;t give Mickey his walking papers permanently is one of the mysteries of the silver screen.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStill Andy Hardyu0026#39;s Private Secretary with its featured singing of Kathryn Grayson is a good example of why the series was so popular with Americans. Places like Carvel just had to exist somewhere in the USA.”