Kay Van Riper


Biography

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Family Affair, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Keep It Dark! Mom Hardy (Spring Byington) and Aunt Milly (Sara Haden) with Andy (Mickey Rooney, his first scene in the role) taking a call from sister Marion (Cecilia Parker), and the judge (Lionel Barrymore) arrives home, in the first Hardy family movie, A Family Affair, 1937.
Family Affair, A (1937) -- (Movie Clip) You've Changed! Andy (Mickey Rooney), who doesn't like girls, is baffled upon arriving to pick up Polly Benedict (Margaret Marquis), in the first Hardy family movie, A Family Affair, 1937.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) -- (Movie Clip) In National Emergency Early on, Andy (Mickey Rooney), rightly regarding himself as an athlete, is unhappy when he finds his usual girlfriend Polly (Ann Rutherford) has taken up with a hunky visiting Navy Olympian (Robert Kent), in MGM's Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, 1939.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Played Romeo Once Andy (Mickey Rooney), now in full swoon over the new drama teacher, doing a solo Shakespeare schtick in his room when dad, Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) stops by, in Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, 1939.
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Star Crossed Lovers In class exchanging notes with annoyed Polly (Ann Rutherford), Andy (Mickey Rooney) gets his head turned by the new drama teacher (Helen Gilbert), Beezy and Tommy (George Breakston, Charles Peck) not getting it, in Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, 1939.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Good Morning Mickey Rooney (as "Mickey") and Judy Garland ("Patsy") make their first appearance introducing this famous tune by Nacio Herb Brown and the producer, Arthur Freed, written for this MGM update of the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical Babes In Arms, 1939, directed by Busby Berkeley.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Title Song Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Douglas MacPhail lead their determined band of teenage second generation vaudevillians in the not often heard title song from the original Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical, director Busby Berkeley letting fly, in MGM's Babes In Arms, 1939.
Babes In Arms (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Where Or When Advanced shooting by director Busby Berkeley and cameraman Ray June, Don and Molly (Douglas MacPhail, Betty Jaynes) rehearsing for the kids' musical, earning no praise from Mickey (Rooney) or Patsy (Judy Garland), with the Rodgers and Hart tune from the original show, in Babes In Arms, 1939.

Bibliography