Aurania Rouverol's mild three-act comedy opened on 21 May 1928 at the Bijou Theatre for 448 performances, capturing family life in its depiction of the relationship between a father, Judge Hardy, and his daughter, Marion, who breaks with her fiancé to aid her father's reelection bid. In 1937, a motion picture version titled A Family Affair, starring Lionel Barrymore, inspired a series of popular Hardy family films with Lewis Stone replacing Barrymore and the focus shifted to Mickey Rooney as the incorrigible teenage son, Andy Hardy.
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.