A Family Affair

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Family Affair, 1937.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces A Family Affair, 1937.

Guest host Alicia Malone introduces A Family Affair, 1937.

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 (Mickey Rooney) joins adults Aunt Milly (Sara Haden), and his dad the judge (Lionel Barrymore) for breakfast after a big night, in the first Hardy family movie A Family Affair, 1937.

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.

In the first Hardy Family film, A Family Affair (1936), a small-town judge fights for re-election while dealing with family problems.