Everybody's Hobby (1939)

 Irene Rich, Jackie Moran and Henry O’Neill in Everybody's Hobby (1939)

The first (and last) in an intended series about 'The Hobby Family', in which every family member was immersed in a hobby-pursuit of some kind: Here, Tom Leslie must choose between losing his job or publishing news in a manner he thinks is unfair. His wife, whose hobby is stamp-collecting, diverts his attention from his troubles at the newspaper by stirring up his interest in his own hobby, photography. Tom arranges to take his son, whose hobby is short-wave radio, on a vacation in the mountains at a site near a Civilian Conservation Corps camp and a forest-ranger station. A forest fire breaks out, and each family-member's hobby proves to have value.

According to an article in The Hollywood Reporter, William Clemens was to have directed this picture, but the studio changed his assignment to Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939).