George Ade Movies

Wealthy stockbroker Lemuel Morewood wants his sons, Billy and Tom, to learn the business and marry Emily Donelson and Frances Berkeley, respectively....

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Two excellent fables in one reel. "The Fable of Another Side-Track an dthe Fatal Album," and "The Fable of the Difference Between Doc and a...

"Sure-thing" Steve and his pals searched the map for prospective country towns in which they could bunco the inhabitants. They decided the town of...

At sight of a woman, he got a ticket for speeding.

Edward Swinger contrives to win the hand of the lovely Caroline Pickering by selling her father his business - a business that doesn't actually exist.

In order to win the hand of the girl he loves, Ed Swinger creates a phony business to fool her father.

Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes...

Kalora is the "slim princess of Morevana," a land in which fat is prized. This distresses her family, who must marry off Kalora, before her rotund...

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

The Busy Business Boy lands at his desk like the Early Bird with the intention of tearing off a week or two of correspondence in an hour or so. But...

When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young...

Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was...

Old man Suggs was feeling Kippy one day, so his son Joel, a little short of pocket money, persuades him to sign over all his property to him, and...

Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things. Father becomes peeved when he receives a bill...

Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor...

Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.

Out in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear gum arctics. In this lonesome kraal two highly respected...

Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the...

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