The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1938  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Victor Jory, Ann Gillis, Spring Byington, Donald Meek, Margaret Hamilton, David Holt
This is an excellent production of Mark Twain's story with Tommy Kelly in the title role and May Robson as Aunt Polly.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble 1944  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George B. Seitz
Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Bonita Granville, Herbert Marshall, Jean Porter, Keye Luke, Lee Wilde, Lyn Wilde, Jackie Moran, Tommy Dix
Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) is still in college and getting into trouble when identical twin girls (Lee Wilde and Lyn Wilde) catch his eye. It doesn't take long before Andy finds himself in deep trouble at which point his father, Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone), steps in and straightens out his son.
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Gang's All Here 1941  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: In the Night
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland, Marcia Mae Jones, Keye Luke, Jackie Moran, Irving Mitchell, Ed Cassidy, Pat Gleason, Jack Kenney, Laurence Criner, Paul Bryar, Jack Ingram, Robert Homans
Young truck drivers Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) work for a firm that is being put out of business by a rival that forces trucks off the road and then hijacks the contents. Frankie, Jefferson, and their friends Chick and Patsy (Jackie Moran and Marcia Mae Jones) decide to take action.
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Haunted House 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Robert F. McGowan
Cast: Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae Jones, George Cleveland, Henry Hall, John St. Polis, Jessie Arnold, Henry Roquemore, Marcelle Ray, Buddy Swan, Christian Rub
Jimmie and Millie (Jackie Moran and Marcia Mae Jones) team up as amateur detectives to clear their friend of a murder charge by finding the real murderer. A clue leading to a hidden fortune may help in their search.
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Janie 1944 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Robert Benchley, Joyce Reynolds, Alan Hale, Hattie McDaniel, Barbara Brown, Richard Erdman, Jackie Moran, John Forrest
When teenager Janie (Joyce Reynolds) falls for a GI (Robert Hutton) stationed at a nearby army camp, her father goes into action to stop the romance.
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Let's Go Collegiate 1941 N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
aka: Farewell to Fame
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Cast: Frankie Darro, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Gale Storm, Frank Sully, Barton Yarborough, Frank Faylen, Marguerite Whitten, Paul Maxey, Tristram Coffin
After members of a collegiate crew team–Frankie (Frankie Darro) and Jeff (Mantan Moreland)–tell their girlfriends that they will win the big race, their star rower is drafted. But that doesn't stop Frankie and Jeff who get a truck driver, Herk Bevans (Frank Sully), to fill in. They win, but Herk turns out to be a criminal on the run, and more than a few problems await the boys.
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Mad About Music 1938  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Arthur Treacher, Helen Parrish, William Frawley, Jackie Moran, Elisabeth Risdon, Franklin Pangborn, Marcia Mae Jones
A young girl boards at a Swiss girls' school while her socialite mother pretends her daughter does not exist–all ends well when the daughter plays cupid and finds the ideal mate for her mother.
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Meet Dr. Christian 1939 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Cast: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Robert Baldwin, Enid Bennett, Paul Harvey, Marcia Mae Jones, Jackie Moran, Maude Eburne, Frank Coghlan Jr., Patsy Lee Parsons, Sarah Edwards, John Kelly
Jean Hersholt started the "Dr. Christian" radio series in 1937 that lasted for 16 years. This film is the first of six episodes–also starring Hersholt. Loveable Dr. Christian has a practice in a small Minnesota town, and in this episode the good doctor wants to build a hospital. But the town's mayor has other plans–until Dr. Christian, despite having out-of-date tools, performs a delicate operation on the mayor's daughter.
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| 1. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
2. Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
3. Gang's All Here (1941)
aka: In the Night
4. Haunted House (1940)
5. Janie (1944)
6. Let's Go Collegiate (1941)
aka: Farewell to Fame
7. Mad About Music (1938)
8. Meet Dr. Christian (1939)
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