Donald Haines Movies

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...

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

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

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

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

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 prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.

A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.

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

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

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

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

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

Muggs is tricked into entering a Civilian Conservation Corps camp by Danny in order to get in shape. Muggs resists and battles with the camp captain...

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

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

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

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

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...