George Ade Movies

Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high school diploma her parents thought she was a young lady now...

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

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.

The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine

Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role....

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.

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

Once there was a good-natured old Scout who opened a drug store on the corner with the intention of making money enough to buy bird seed once in a...

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

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

#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze.

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...

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...

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

Dancing instructor Madame Cassell spends the day having her feet trampled by auto enthusiast Wally trying to teach him the prevailing dance craze. In...

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...

"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...

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

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