In 1937, MGM reunited the cast of its Eugene O’Neill adaptation Ah, Wilderness! for a low-budget version of Aurania Rouverol’s recent Broadway success Skidding, about a small-town Midwestern family presided over by a wise old judge, played by Lionel Barrymore. The movie—titled A Family Affair—became a surprise hit, with audiences particularly responding to the high-strung teenage character Andy Hardy, played by veteran MGM child star Mickey Rooney. By the end of the year, the studio had produced a sequel, You’re Only Young Once (with Lewis Stone replacing Barrymore as Judge James Hardy), and it kept ...
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