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Therese Ann Rutherford [1] (November 2, 1917 – June 11, 2012) was a Canadian-born American actress in film, radio, and television. She had a long career starring and co-starring in films, playing Polly Benedict during the 1930s and 1940s in the Andy Hardy series, and appearing as one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters, Careen O'Hara in the film Gone with the Wind (1939).
It was the last Hardy film to include the character Polly Benedict, Andy's long-suffering sweetheart, as well as the last to feature Ann Rutherford (who had taken over the role of Polly in the second film of the series).
Mickey Rooney tried to persuade Ann Rutherford to return as Polly Benedict, Andy's on-and-off sweetheart in most of the original movies, so the two characters could be a married couple, but Rutherford's salary demands were too high, and the character was written out.
The second and subsequent films starred Lewis Stone as Judge Hardy, Fay Holden as Mrs. Hardy, and Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict. The Hardys' oldest child, married daughter Joan Hardy Martin, appeared only in the first film and was not mentioned in the subsequent films.
It is December 1938 in the town of Carvel. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is putting a down payment on a used car, desperate to take his girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) to the Christmas Eve dance in his own car. When Polly tells Andy she will be visiting her grandmother for the next three weeks and will not be able to attend the ...
On his father's advice, Andy attempts to offload some of his own study work, and asks Kathryn Land to be his private secretary, much to the chagrin of his steady girlfriend Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford). Polly gets quite jealous of Kathryn when she discovers that Andy's bought stockings for Kathryn to wear at graduation. [5]
Mickey Rooney as Andy Hardy; Lewis Stone as Judge James 'Jim' K. Hardy; Fay Holden as Mrs. Emily Hardy; Cecilia Parker as Marian Hardy; Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict; Sara Haden as Aunt Milly Forrest
Ann Rutherford as Polly Benedict; Diana Lewis as Daphne Fowler; George P. Breakston as F. Baker 'Beezy' Anderson; Sara Haden as Aunt Milly Forrest; Addison Richards as George Benedict; George Lessey as Underwood, a Lawyer; Cy Kendall as Mr. Carrillo; Clyde Willson as Francis a.k.a. Butch