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More important than these were the life lessons for growing boys. Andy Hardy remained wildly popular because boys of the period could identify with his social, money, and girl troubles. Nor were all the films totally comical: in one, ''[[Life Begins for Andy Hardy]],'' Andy Hardy learns some of the hardest lessons of his life when a good friend of his suffers a heart attack and dies.
More important than these were the life lessons for growing boys. Andy Hardy remained wildly popular because boys of the period could identify with his social, money, and girl troubles. Nor were all the films totally comical: in one, ''[[Life Begins for Andy Hardy]],'' Andy Hardy learns some of the hardest lessons of his life when a good friend of his suffers a heart attack and dies.
== Awards and Other Accolades ==
On August 15, 1941, the mayor of [[Hollywood]] held a ceremony at [[Mann's Chinese Theater]] (known as Grauman's Chinese Theater at the time) in which he presented a plaque to the principal actors in the series and dubbed Judge Hardy's family "the first family of Hollywood." That plaque cannot be found today.
In 1943, the series received a special [[Academy Award]] for its "achievement in portraying the American way of life."<ref name=Fans/>
== Individual Films in the Series ==
== Individual Films in the Series ==