Marvin Stephens

Movies

Freckles Comes Home
Danny Doyle
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.
Blondie Goes Latin
Messenger Bringing Drums (uncredited)
The 8th film in the Blondie series - Blondie Goes Latin. Mr. Dithers invites the Bumstead's 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.
Ride, Kelly, Ride
Corn Cob Kelly
Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).
Third Finger, Left Hand
Merton
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!
Tomboy
Harry, Steve's Rival
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
Young Tom Edison
Frank Allen
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.
Young as You Feel
Tommy McGuire
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.
High School
Bill
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.
Too Busy to Work
Tommy McGuire
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.
Quick Millions
Tommy McGuire
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
The Jones Family in Hollywood
Tommy McGuire
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Everybody's Baby
Tommy McGuire
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
Fighting Thoroughbreds
Hefty
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.
Down on the Farm
Tommy McGuire
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
Speed to Burn
Tim Turner
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
Safety in Numbers
Tommy McGuire
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor (Prouty), is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
A Trip to Paris
Tommy McGuire
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.
Love on a Budget
Tommy McGuire
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.
Borrowing Trouble
Tommy McGuire
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
Checkers
Jimmy Somers
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
High Tension
Office Boy
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
The Country Doctor
Ham Radio Operator (uncredited)
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
Mickey's Medicine Man
Katrink
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
Mickey's Minstrels
Katrink
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
Mickey's Tent Show
Katrink
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
Mickey's Touchdown
Katrink
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.
Mickey's Big Business
Mickey McGuire
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.
Mickey's Helping Hand
Mickey McGuire
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.