Donald Haines Movies

Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

The East Side Kids discover that one of their own, Danny, is torn between staying in school and becoming a boxer, and is getting mixed up with...

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry...

Carey Wilson narrates this MGM Miniature short in which an average office worker suffers all week-end because his boss, who had a bad case of...

Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.

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

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled.

A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.

Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to...

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.

One of the few films in the series without Mickey Rooney. Costar Marvin Stephens ("Katrink'") stands in for Rooney. The short finds the gang...