Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were one of the most attractive young pairs in Hollywood in the pre-World War II years. These adolescent performers were great friends offscreen as well as on, and their chemistry is apparent in every movie they made together. Garland is most famous as a singer, so it’s no surprise that most of the movies they made together were musicals. Rooney also was a musical performer who sang and danced.
Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made 10 movies together throughout their career. Of these, three were entries in the popular Andy Hardy series, all of which starred Mickey Rooney as an incorrigible but lovable youngster from a small town. Judy had a recurring role on the show as Betsy Booth, Andy’s younger neighbor with a hopeless crush on him. Of the 16 films in the Hardy series, the three with Betsy are “Love Finds Andy Hardy” (1938), “Andy Hardy Meets Debutante” (1940), and “Life Begins for Andy Hardy” (1941).
