Andy Hardy Meets Debutante

Opening finds star Mickey Rooney in bed with a magazine featuring Diana Lewis as his faraway crush, the other title character, masking his obsession behind botany, his mom and aunt Milly (Fay Holden, Sara Haden), not yet catching on, in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940.

The Hardy family (Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker as Marian and Mickey Rooney as Andy) travels from Carmel (somewhere in the midwest…) to New York, on the judge’s legal business, where hometown friend Betsy (Judy Garland) has arranged lodging, early in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940.

Mickey Rooney as Andy is most un-interested in smitten Betsy (Judy Garland), friend from home-town Carmel, now in New York, selflessly helping him by renting a tux for his crazy pursuit of a society girl, song by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, in Andy Hardy Meets Debutante, 1940.

In the series' ninth movie Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940) and goes into debt making time Manhattan style.