George Ade Movies

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...

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...

The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel.

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

The loyal women of the congregation decided to pull off a festival and raise some coin for the support of the church.

Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved all her relatives. He thought it his duty to give three...

When Tillie left her country home for the seminary, she was just a plain Gawk, but when she returned a year later, she was a Glorious Butterfly.

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...

"The Fable of the Girl Who Shifted the System" is about a girl called Ethel, who was very chatty but never could make a hit with the fellows. She...

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

"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...

Mrs. Clymer has great social aspirations, and every time she gave a party her husband was in the habit of going to the Hash House for his sinkers and...

He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon.

The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine

The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days. How the young...

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

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

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

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure is a 1916 American short comedy...

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...