Biography: Cecilia Parker |
Winsome Canadian-born leading lady Cecilia Parker made her first film at age 16. She was one of the hardest-working B ingénues of the 1930s, appearing in many a Western, serial, and rural omance. In several of her films, she teamed with wholesome... more
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Cast: Van Heflin
Tags: Musical Romance Musical Romance
Length: 98min
This MGM musical lifts the premise of Pride and Prejudice and plunks it down into the early 1900s. S.Z. Sakall is a restaurateur who has decreed that his seven daughters must marry in order of age -- the oldest one first. Kathryn Grayson isn't the...
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
Tags: Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Coming-of-Age
Length: 91min
Incredible as it may seem, rambunctious 18-year-old Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) finally makes it to college in Andy Hardy's Double Life. Just as he did at Carvel High School, Andy majors in "girls" at college, at one point finding himself engaged...
Cast: Mickey Rooney
Tags: Comedy
Length: 80min
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. Returning to his home town of Carvel after several years absence, lawyer Andy Hardy...
Tags: Detective Film Mystery Crime
Length: 72min
Grand Central Murder was intended as a followup to the MGM "sleeper" Kid Glove Killer, with the earlier film's star, Van Heflin, appearing in a similar role. When bitchy actress Mida King (Patricia Dane) is bumped off in a private train car at Grand...
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
Cast: Donna Reed
Tags: Comedy Romance Teen Movie Romantic Comedy
Length: 93min
MGM's "Andy Hardy" series continued to rake in the bucks with its 12th entry, The Courtship of Andy Hardy. The story takes off when Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) tackles an unpleasant divorce case. Feeling that the root of the estranged couple's problem...
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
Cast: Judy Garland George B. Seitz
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Urban Comedy
Length: 89min
The debutante whom Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) meets-after falling in love with her photograph -- is blonde Diana Lewis (the real-life wife of William Powell). It all comes about when Andy accompanies his dad Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) to New York....
Cast: Harry Carey
Tags: Sports Drama Drama
Length: 70min
The zippy world of auto-racing provided the basis of this off-beat actioner that centers on an auto magnate who is relentlessly driven to break every speed record with his cars. Unfortunately, his drivers keep dying on the track. This doesn't stop the...
Tags: Drama
Length: 87min
If Judge Hardy and Son had been filmed in the 1990s, it would have been titled Andy Hardy VII. In this latest edition of MGM's "Hardy Family" series, the kindly Judge (Lewis Stone) wrestles with two problems. He must rescue an elderly couple from...
Cast: Gale Storm
Tags: Crime Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Film
Length: 65min
The Gambling Daughters of the title are Gale Storm and Janet Shaw. Students in an exclusive girl's school, Storm and Shaw fall under the spell of suave, secretive gambler Roger Pryor. It isn't long before the girls have depleted their family's...
Cast: Ann Rutherford
Length: 80min
The fifth of MGM's "Andy Hardy" series, The Hardys Ride High finds the Hardy family outside their usual small-town environs. The complacently middle-class family (middle class by Hollywood standards, that is!) inherits a large estate, compelling them...
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