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Mickey's Helping Hand (1931)
Character: Katrink
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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Radio Dough (1934)
Character: Speck (uncredited)
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
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No Children (1929)
Character: Smitty
Parents pretend they are in show business and their kids are ventriloquist dummies.
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Uncle's Visit (1929)
Character: Smitty
Grumpy uncle comes to visit but the gang of kids soon have him smiling!
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The Christmas Party (1931)
Character: Party Guest
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 fellow stars at MGM help him out.
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Classic Comedy Teams (1986)
Character: Our Gang and The East Side Kids (archive footage)
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
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Radio Scout (1934)
Character: Boy
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 gain their confidence.
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Down on the Farm (1938)
Character: Boy in Drug Store
Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.
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Sergeant Madden (1939)
Character: Milton
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
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The Boss Didn't Say Good Morning (1937)
Character: Office Boy
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 indigestion, didn't speak to him when he came to work on Friday and is convinced he is going to get fired.
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Spooks Run Wild (1941)
Character: Skinny
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
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Birthday Blues (1932)
Character: Boy with Mousetrap
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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Bargain Day (1931)
Character: Speck
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
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Little Miss Nobody (1936)
Character: Harold Slade
A runaway orphan is befriended by a kind-hearted pet store owner with a criminal past.
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East Side Kids (1940)
Character: PeeWee
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 his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
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The Return of Wild Bill (1940)
Character: Delivers telegram
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Vagabond Lady (1935)
Character: Spear Office Boy (uncredited)
Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.
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Pride of the Bowery (1940)
Character: Skinny
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 and with other campers. He also becomes involved in trying to help one of his friends get out of trouble.
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Straight from the Heart (1935)
Character: Neighbor Boy
In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little baby as evidence in a paternity suit. The girl goes along with it until she learns that the mayor is innocent.
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Melody Ranch (1940)
Character: Callboy
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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Bunker Bean (1936)
Character: Jones & Co. Office Boy (uncredited)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
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Teacher's Pet (1930)
Character: Don
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Character: Young Spud (uncredited)
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.
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Love and Hisses (1937)
Character: Newsboy
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.
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Little Daddy (1931)
Character: Donald
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
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Fish Hooky (1933)
Character: Donald
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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On Your Toes (1939)
Character: Elevator Operator
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940)
Character: Burly Bascomb
Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
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The Nitwits (1935)
Character: Hal - Office Boy
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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That Gang of Mine (1940)
Character: Skinny
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 man agrees to let the boy ride his horse in a race, but first the gang must get enough money to pay for the race's entry fees.
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The Winning Ticket (1935)
Character: Stubby
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
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Never Say Die (1939)
Character: Julius - Bellhop
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 her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Little Man, What Now? (1934)
Character: Emil
A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn't like to hire married men.
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Flying Wild (1941)
Character: Skinny
A group of young men who work at an aviation factory begin to suspect that a doctor who runs an air ambulance service is secretly a spy transporting secret information from the plant to enemy agents.
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Kidnapped (1938)
Character: Ransome
Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
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Shivering Shakespeare (1930)
Character: Donny
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 from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
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Helping Grandma (1931)
Character: Donald
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
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Skippy (1931)
Character: Harley Nubbins
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 dogcatcher.
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Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Character: Skinny, red-haired kid
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 gangsters.
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Music in the Air (1934)
Character: Peanut Vendor at Munich Zoo (uncredited)
A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.
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Love Business (1931)
Character: Donald
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
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Boys of the City (1940)
Character: Peewee
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
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