LOVE LAUGHS AT ANDY HARDY (1947) ** Every film has a message, and this one's message is that the country club set used to be really doofy. Their sons had to go through contortions involving lies, messengers, and ladies' bathrobes just to breathe. So the message remains current, though it's not presented with nearly the power or élan as in Caddyshack. It's tempting to say that not only love, but everyone else, laughs at Mickey Rooney for missing Lina Romay because of Bonita Granville, but that's really more the way love laughs at each of us. And we at each other and eventually, once we finally get it, at ourselves. And then we laugh with love, more heartily than we laughed at the movie. Will someone please write this stuff down, it sounds like Byron, or at least Dryden, doesn't it?
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