Marvin Stephens
Also Known As: Marvin Remley Stephens, Marvin R. Stephens
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado, USA
Birthday: March 23, 1922
Deathday: May 22, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Overview: Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Broken Lullaby
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-19
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Freckles Comes Home
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Mickey's Helping Hand
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-18
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Mickey's Touchdown
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-13
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Mickey's Big Business
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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Mickey's Minstrels
Overview: In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-10
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Mickey's Tent Show
Overview: Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-10-26
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Mickey's Medicine Man
Overview: The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-17
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Love on a Budget
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-04
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Mickey's Menagerie
Overview: Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-17
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Too Busy to Work
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
Overview: A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-07
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The Country Doctor
Overview: A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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A Trip to Paris
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-06
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Young Tom Edison
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-15
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High Tension
Overview: Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-10
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Fighting Thoroughbreds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-06
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Speed to Burn
Overview: Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Everybody's Baby
Overview: The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Tomboy
Overview: Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Mickey the Great
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-06
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Mickey the Detective
Overview: Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-27
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Mickey's Big Game Hunt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-22
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Mickey's Ape Man
Overview: Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-19
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Mickey's Luck
Overview: 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).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-29
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Mickey's Big Moment
Overview: The film finds Mickey and Hambone trying to dig up some dirt on Stinky Davis' father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-09
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Mickey's Whirlwinds
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-04-27
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Mickey's Thrill Hunters
Overview: Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Mickey's Surprise
Overview: Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-14
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Mickey's Mix-Up
Overview: An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-12
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Mickey's Champs
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-02
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Mickey's Rebellion
Overview: A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-23
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Mickey's Midnite Follies
Overview: Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney. Currently only reel #2 has been found.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-18
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Mickey's Explorers
Overview: A.K.A. "Mickey's Brigade". Mickey and the gang try to become explorers, "like Columbus and all them guys".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-17
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Mickey's Northwest Mounted
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-08
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Mickey's Warriors
Overview: A high society lady tries to bring peace between the Mickey's Scorpions and Stinky Davis' gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-24
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Mickey's Great Idea
Overview: The gang build their own airplane, and Mickey and Hambone go for a high-flying adventure when the plane supposedly starts to work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-29
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Mickey's Brown Derby
Overview: A Mickey McGuire comedy short starring Mickey Rooney.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-11
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Mickey's Wildcats
Overview: Mickey and the gang come across a baby. Billy Barty plays a dual role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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Mickey's Stampede
Overview: A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-06
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Mickey's Disguises
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-17
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Mickey's Race
Overview: Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-13
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Mickey's Covered Wagon
Overview: Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-29
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Mickey's Rescue
Overview: When Billy get adopted by a rich couple, Mickey and the gang spring into action to bring their pal back home.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-22
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-11
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Young as You Feel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-16
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High School
Overview: 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 she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-26
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Down on the Farm
Overview: Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Borrowing Trouble
Overview: The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-10
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Safety in Numbers
Overview: The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-30
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Blondie Goes Latin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Quick Millions
Overview: In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-25
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Checkers
Overview: A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-08
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