Marvin Stephens

Marvin Stephens

Born: March 23, 1922
Died: May 22, 2008
in Denver, Colorado, USA

Movies for Marvin Stephens...

Freckles Comes Home
Title: Freckles Comes Home
Character: Danny Doyle
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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Blondie Goes Latin
Title: Blondie Goes Latin
Character: Messenger Bringing Drums (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
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.
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Ride, Kelly, Ride
Title: Ride, Kelly, Ride
Character: Corn Cob Kelly
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Title: Third Finger, Left Hand
Character: Merton
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
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!
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Tomboy
Title: Tomboy
Character: Harry, Steve's Rival
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
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Young Tom Edison
Title: Young Tom Edison
Character: Frank Allen
Released: March 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Young as You Feel
Title: Young as You Feel
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: February 16, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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High School
Title: High School
Character: Bill
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
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.
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Too Busy to Work
Title: Too Busy to Work
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Quick Millions
Title: Quick Millions
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: August 25, 1939
Type: Movie
In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.
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The Jones Family in Hollywood
Title: The Jones Family in Hollywood
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
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Everybody's Baby
Title: Everybody's Baby
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Jones family encounters new theories of childrearing when an author arrives in town to lecture on the topic.
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Fighting Thoroughbreds
Title: Fighting Thoroughbreds
Character: Hefty
Released: January 6, 1939
Type: Movie
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.
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Down on the Farm
Title: Down on the Farm
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Speed to Burn
Title: Speed to Burn
Character: Tim Turner
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.
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Safety in Numbers
Title: Safety in Numbers
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: May 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.
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A Trip to Paris
Title: A Trip to Paris
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: May 6, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Love on a Budget
Title: Love on a Budget
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: March 4, 1938
Type: Movie
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.
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Borrowing Trouble
Title: Borrowing Trouble
Character: Tommy McGuire
Released: December 10, 1937
Type: Movie
The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.
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Checkers
Title: Checkers
Character: Jimmy Somers
Released: December 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
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High Tension
Title: High Tension
Character: Office Boy
Released: July 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
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The Country Doctor
Title: The Country Doctor
Character: Ham Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1936
Type: Movie
A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.
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Mickey's Medicine Man
Title: Mickey's Medicine Man
Character: Katrink
Released: May 17, 1934
Type: Movie
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
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Mickey's Minstrels
Title: Mickey's Minstrels
Character: Katrink
Released: January 10, 1934
Type: Movie
In order to pay back Stinky Davis, Mickey becomes an organ grinder, and later put on a minstrel show.
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Mickey's Tent Show
Title: Mickey's Tent Show
Character: Katrink
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
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Mickey's Touchdown
Title: Mickey's Touchdown
Character: Katrink
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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.
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Mickey's Big Business
Title: Mickey's Big Business
Character: Mickey McGuire
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Broken Lullaby
Title: Broken Lullaby
Released: January 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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.
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Mickey's Helping Hand
Title: Mickey's Helping Hand
Character: Mickey McGuire
Released: December 18, 1931
Type: Movie
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.
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Mickey's Menagerie
Title: Mickey's Menagerie
Character: Katrink
Released: March 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey Rooney.