Marvin Stephens

About a worker's institutionalization and eventual return back to a productive life.

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.

Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go back home.

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

Mr. Dithers invites the Bumsteads on a South American cruise. Somehow Dagwood winds up as the female drummer in the ship's band, while Penny Singleton gets to show off her Broadway background in some lively musical numbers.

Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.

Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.

A group of young actresses reminisces about their days as part of a gang of kids, headed by Mickey McGuire. Their memories take the form of clips from episodes of the long running Mickey McGuire series of short comedies.

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled on her father's Texan ranch must adjust to her new surroundings with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high school.

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the same musical conservatory in France. The fact that the incident occurred in war does not assuage his guilt. He travels to Germany to meet the man's family.

The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Mickey Rooney -- credited as McGuire, as he would be through the run of the series -- inducts a new member into the gang, tries to put little brother Billy Barty to bed for a nap, and wins a basketball game against Stinky Davis' team in this episode of the series.

Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.

This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle while trying to cut household expenses.

A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be victimized by clever Parisian con artists.

The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang preparing for a Christmas party for the poor kids in the neighborhood.

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.

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In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.

A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky Derby against another horse owned by its sire.

Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.

When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.

Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.

A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.

Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The film finds the gang competing with Stinky's gang in the junior Olympics.

Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.

Mickey and the kids befriend a couple of tramps. But when the tramps are accused of stealing, Mickey and Hambone find themselves trying to expose who they think is the real crook: a doctor in a spooky house.

Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.

Mickey and the gang become fire fighters. Features ridiculous stunts (including a car getting hit by a train, and Spencer Bell sharing a scene with a live lion).

Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning. Special guest star USC coach Howard Jones.

A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.

A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.

An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.

The film finds Mickey and Hambone trying to dig up some dirt on Stinky Davis' father.

Mickey and the gang go game hunting, and come across a live lion. No, seriously, we see eight year old Rooney share a scene with a real lion.

A Mickey McGuire comedy short starring Mickey Rooney.

Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney. Currently only reel #2 has been found.

The gang build their own airplane, and Mickey and Hambone go for a high-flying adventure when the plane supposedly starts to work.

One of the last silent shorts in the series. Stinky invites Mickey and company to his rodeo. Plenty of lassoing, horse riding, and even a head-butting contest between Hambone and a goat!

Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.

Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney.

Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.

A.K.A. "Mickey's Brigade". Mickey and the gang try to become explorers, "like Columbus and all them guys".