Margaret Bert Movies

The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.

A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

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

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears,...

A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the...

This Pete Smith Specialty short looks at the notion that a man chases a woman till he catches her. Who's really chasing whom?

Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.

American humorist Robert Benchley provides a comedic look at the difficulty in being a father.

Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a...

This short film examines the origins of several superstitions including crossing your fingers, knocking on wood, rabbit's feet, and breaking...

A satirical visualization of strange and forgotten, but (at that time) nevertheless still existing laws in the U.S.A.

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short looks at how a few specific inventions made a major contribution to the U.S. war effort.