George Ade Movies

A very young Joan Bennett tops the cast as Nan Sheffield, the daughter of a college president. The nominal leading man is Tommy Nelson, the...

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...

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.

The political bosses knew it was an off year and they needed a Goat to run for City Clerk. They didn't want a regular guy to get "stepped on," so...

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

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...

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...

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....

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

Ernest Coppie, an author, was trying to grind out something that could be sold for enough coin to buy himself a good square meal. He dashed off some...

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...

Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.

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

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...

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 Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine

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...

Clara was no longer a Spring Chicken, and when she passed the Thirty Mark, she began to worry for fear that she could never Rope In a Bread Earner,...

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