Donald Haines Movies

A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

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

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...

In this holiday short, Jackie Cooper wants to throw a Christmas party for his friends on his football team but doesn't know how to go about it. His...

A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

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

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

Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

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

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

A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a championship race horse. The...

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...

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