You don't like Andy Hardy?
Well, my problem with the “Andy Hardy” (Mickey Rooney) series is that I find the films too cutesy and calculated, and dripping with that glossy MGM artiface. Oh, they’re tolerable, in a way. But cloying.
The “Henry Aldrich” films were from Paramount, and more B-movie-ish, but they were far less pretentious, and seemed to more vividly capture the sort of early-1940s teen culture, as well as the atmospherics of their time. That’s something I personally place a bit more value in, when it comes to judging films.
But I have run into a few people that just didn’t care at all for the Henry Aldrich films, finding the whole character to be screechy and a dullard. Different tastes, ultimately.