The Courtship of Andy Hardy
The Courtship of Andy Hardy is a 1942 film, part of the Andy Hardy series.
It gave an early role to Donna Reed although Mickey Rooney had lobbied for his then- wife Ava Gardner to have her part.
Within a few months of the film's release, she filed for divorce.
This was the 12th entry in the long- running" Andy Hardy" series of sixteen.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever is a 1939 romantic comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke.
The plot is about Andy Hardy having a crush on his high school drama teacher, Miss Rose Meredith.
It is the seventh of sixteen Andy Hardy films starring Mickey Rooney.
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy is a 1946 American film released by Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer, directed by Willis Goldbeck and starring Mickey Rooney and Lewis Stone.
The film is also known under its American promotional title Uncle Andy Hardy.
This was the 15th, next- to- last Andy Hardy film produced.
The final installment," Andy Hardy Comes Home", would be made 12 years later( 1958) in a failed attempt to revive the franchise.
This film was also noteworthy for being the last to feature veteran character actor Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy.
Stone continued his career for the next seven years, making 10 more films until his death in 1953 at age 73.
William Ludwig
William Ludwig( May 16, 1912 – February 7, 1999) was an American screenwriter.
Ludwig graduated from Columbia University in 1932.
In 1937 he joined MGM and his first screenplay was" Love Finds Andy Hardy".
He won, with Sonya Levien, an Oscar for" Best Writing, Story and Screenplay" in 1955 for" Interrupted Melody".
He remained a contract writer at MGM for 20 years, an industry record.
Other notable works include the screenplay for the 1955 production of" Oklahoma!".
He died of complications from Parkinson disease.
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble is a 1944 romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz.
It is the fourteenth link starring Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy.
In the film, Andy goes to college, but soon gets in trouble with some pretty co-eds.
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Life Begins for Andy Hardy is a 1941 American comedy film and the 11th installment of the 16 popular Andy Hardy movies.
Directed by George B. Seitz," Life Begins for Andy Hardy" was also the last Andy Hardy movie to feature Judy Garland.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante is a 1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George B. Seitz.
The film stars Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Judy Garland.
It is the ninth of the" Andy Hardy" full- length film series.
George B. Seitz
George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director.
He was known for his screenplays for action serials, such as "The Perils of Pauline" (1914) and "The Exploits of Elaine" (1914).
Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for "up-market" pulp magazines such as "Adventure" and "People's Magazine".
Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there.
He was the director of more than one hundred films, the writer of more than thirty screenplays, and an actor in seven films.
He worked at Columbia Pictures and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he directed eleven films in the "Andy Hardy" series of the 1930s & 1940s.
He died in Hollywood, California in 1944.
Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related.
He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.
Cecilia Parker
Cecilia Parker( April 26, 1914 – July 25, 1993) was a Canadian- born American film actress.
She was best known for portraying Marian Hardy, the sister of Andy Hardy in eleven of the Andy Hardy film series.
Love Finds Andy Hardy
Love Finds
Andy Hardy is a 1938 American romantic comedy film that tells the story of a teenage boy who becomes entangled with three different girls all at the same time.
It stars Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Ann Rutherford, Mary Howard and Gene Reynolds.
The screenplay was written by William Ludwig, from stories by Vivien R. Bretherton, and based upon characters created by Aurania Rouverol.
It was directed by George B. Seitz.
In 2000, "Love Finds Andy Hardy" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
This was the first film in which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer recorded at least part of the soundtrack in stereophonic sound, a practice which was used for a number of MGM musical comedies beginning the late 1930s.
The film was presented in standard monaural sound.

Question: When did the director of film Love Finds Andy Hardy die?
Answer: July 8, 1944