Marvin Stephens
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-03-23
Locus Natus: Denver, Colorado, USA
Et ut: Marvin Remley Stephens, Marvin R. Stephens
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
release : 1939.06.02popularis : 1.963
Broken Lullaby
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...
release : 1932.01.19popularis : 8.004
Freckles Comes Home
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...
release : 1942.01.02popularis : 1.156
Mickey's Helping Hand
One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang...
release : 1931.12.18popularis : 0.377
Mickey's Big Business
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...
release : 1932.05.20popularis : 0.296
Mickey's Touchdown
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...
release : 1933.10.13popularis : 0.459
Mickey's Tent Show
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
release : 1933.10.26popularis : 0.414
Mickey's Minstrels
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
release : 1934.01.10popularis : 1.413
Mickey's Medicine Man
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
release : 1934.05.17popularis : 0.416
Love on a Budget
This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...
release : 1938.03.04popularis : 2.843
Mickey's Menagerie
Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney.
release : 1929.03.17popularis : 0.678
Too Busy to Work
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...
release : 1939.11.17popularis : 2.129
Ride, Kelly, Ride
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
release : 1941.02.07popularis : 1.181
The Country Doctor
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
release : 1936.03.12popularis : 4.127
A Trip to Paris
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...
release : 1938.05.06popularis : 3.266
Young Tom Edison
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...
release : 1940.03.15popularis : 2.836
High Tension
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
release : 1936.07.10popularis : 2.986
Fighting Thoroughbreds
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...
release : 1939.01.06popularis : 2.591
Speed to Burn
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
release : 1938.06.07popularis : 2.111
Everybody's Baby
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 2.332
Tomboy
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
release : 1940.04.20popularis : 2.048
Mickey the Great
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...
release : 1945.04.06popularis : 0.593
Mickey's Warriors
A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.
release : 1930.05.24popularis : 0.757
Mickey the Detective
Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.
release : 1928.10.27popularis : 0.448
Mickey's Big Game Hunt
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.
release : 1928.12.22popularis : 0.275
Mickey's Great Idea
The gang build their own airplane, and Mickey and Hambone go for a high-flying adventure when the plane supposedly starts to work.
release : 1929.01.29popularis : 0.549
Mickey's Explorers
A.K.A. "Mickey's Brigade". Mickey and the gang try to become explorers, "like Columbus and all them guys".
release : 1929.02.17popularis : 1.693
Mickey's Brown Derby
A Mickey McGuire comedy short starring Mickey Rooney.
release : 1929.05.11popularis : 1.828
Mickey's Northwest Mounted
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...
release : 1929.06.08popularis : 0.594
Mickey's Midnite Follies
Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney. Currently only reel #2 has been found.
release : 1929.08.18popularis : 0.416
Mickey's Surprise
Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.
release : 1929.09.14popularis : 0.936
Mickey's Mix-Up
An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.
release : 1929.10.12popularis : 0.26
Mickey's Big Moment
The film finds Mickey and Hambone trying to dig up some dirt on Stinky Davis' father.
release : 1929.11.09popularis : 0.794
Mickey's Champs
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...
release : 1930.02.02popularis : 0.886
Mickey's Luck
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...
release : 1930.03.29popularis : 1.467
Mickey's Whirlwinds
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...
release : 1930.04.27popularis : 1.127
Mickey's Stampede
A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.
release : 1931.02.06popularis : 0.686
Mickey's Rebellion
A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
release : 1931.06.23popularis : 0.313
Mickey's Wildcats
Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.
release : 1931.09.11popularis : 0.595
Mickey's Thrill Hunters
Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
release : 1931.09.18popularis : 0.705
Mickey's Ape Man
Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.
release : 1933.01.19popularis : 0.435
Mickey's Race
Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
release : 1933.04.13popularis : 1.837
Mickey's Covered Wagon
Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
release : 1933.11.29popularis : 0.797
Mickey's Rescue
When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
release : 1934.03.22popularis : 0.356
Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...
release : 1940.10.11popularis : 4.484
Young as You Feel
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...
release : 1940.02.16popularis : 1.195
High School
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...
release : 1940.01.26popularis : 0.94
Borrowing Trouble
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
release : 1937.12.10popularis : 1.487
Safety in Numbers
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
release : 1938.05.30popularis : 2.023
Down on the Farm
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
release : 1938.10.11popularis : 1.238
Blondie Goes Latin
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...
release : 1941.02.27popularis : 3.679
Quick Millions
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
release : 1939.08.25popularis : 3.54
Checkers
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
release : 1937.12.08popularis : 1.469