Pedaling his Western Union bike, Andy Hardy crosedthe the Charlie Chaplin line of pantomime, his memory ging all the way back tpo Luisr Rainer(Paul Muni, “the good Erth”), Norma Shearer, Katherine Hepburn,Joan Craword (“Mommy Dearest”), Mildred Pierce”), Greta Garbo (“I vant to be alone”), HedyLaMarr. Esther Williams, June Allyson, Judy Garland, Cy Cerisse…………
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Louis B. Mayer of Boston, a Rabbinical ancestry, wa on an ego trip to Culver City (Hal Roach’;s “Ouir gang” comedies), when Louis B. got Nichols Schenk’s vote of confidence from the B iugApple corporate office, naming him vice president I charge of production. A title he couldn’t live without.
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Needless to say Fay Bainter’s movie son Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) could never forget those Gold Star mothers 3000 miles back in the Big Apple.
Hadn’t he himself come a log way,grasping ma’s inhumanity to man. That the materialism, money culture, had devoured the studio’s culture.
Wasn’t that the ratiole the studio declined his opportunity to b e a reader in their culture?
Yet Danny Fuchs, Henry Fuchs kid brother, the Chairman of the English department at Midwood High School, where Andy Hardy hd delivered his Gold Star telegrams earlier in his own experience o the studio lot. Didn’t Danny vow the UCLA one act production “Mozart and Mushrooim Barley”, log before the Hospital for Special Sugery an d Estelle Lisnek Adler’s genius…4000 hours of volunteering at Maimonides Hospital inthe Big Apple of Brooklyn.
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