i find this movie to be a tedious entry and so different from the other movie in the hardy family series that it take me by surprise and disappoint me . it begin on the night the previous entry and andy hardy private secretary ( 1941 ) end high school graduation night . andy ( mickey rooney ) have a month to apply for a scholarship to go to college and so he decide and with his family reluctant blessing and to go to new york and get a job and and see what life be all about . judy garland live there and keep an eye on him and but her talent be totally waste . judy doesn not sing at all ( unless you count the few line of happy birthday to you ) while mickey find the school of hard knock so try it be painful to watch his plight and which include an attempted seduction of him by an old woman ( patricia dane ) and the death of a friend . i hardly laugh at any point of this somber movie . i might have enjoy the movie more have i be forewarn that it be much more of a drama than a comedy . the national legion of decency classify this movie a unsuitable for child because of rooney scene with dane and his man to man talk with his father ( lewis stone ) about fidelity to one future wife and whoever she may be .