George Ade Filmes

  • 1916
    The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure

    The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure

    The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure

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    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...

    The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure
  • 1915
    The Fable of the Roistering Blades

    The Fable of the Roistering Blades

    The Fable of the Roistering Blades

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    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...

    The Fable of the Roistering Blades
  • 1914
    The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty

    The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty

    The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty

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    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...

    The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty
  • 1935
    The County Chairman

    The County Chairman

    The County Chairman

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    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....

    The County Chairman
  • 1914
    The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy

    The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy

    The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy

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    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 Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy
  • 1914
    The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie

    The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie

    The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie

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    The Todd family had no success in finding a suitable cook, and after firing the thirteenth one that month, they went to an employment agency and...

    The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie
  • 1914
    The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

    The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

    The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify

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

    The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify
  • 1914
    Two Pop-Up Fables

    Two Pop-Up Fables

    Two Pop-Up Fables

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    "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...

    Two Pop-Up Fables
  • 1915
    Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents

    Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents

    Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents

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    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.

    Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents
  • 1914
    The Prevailing Craze

    The Prevailing Craze

    The Prevailing Craze

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

    The Prevailing Craze
  • 1915
    The Slim Princess

    The Slim Princess

    The Slim Princess

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

    The Slim Princess
  • 1914
    The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

    The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

    The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand

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    Once there was an old man called Jonah Crabb, who believed in doing good. Every morning the bunco artists would watch for him on the street corners,...

    The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand
  • 1914
    The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter'

    The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter'

    The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter'

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    Aunt Mahaley knew Uncle Brewster was sporty, and when he went to the city to pay off his mortgage she warned him about being too free with his coin....

    The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter'
  • 1914
    The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze'

    The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze'

    The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze'

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    Blackstone Cooley, a studious young lawyer, could not see the girls for dust. One day while walking down the street he ran squat into a dame who...

    The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze'
  • 1914
    The Fable of the 'Good Fairy'

    The Fable of the 'Good Fairy'

    The Fable of the 'Good Fairy'

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    Once there was a broad girl who had nothing to do except the two-by-four midget known as her husband, so she decided to help the poor. She thought it...

    The Fable of the 'Good Fairy'
  • 1915
    At the End of a Perfect Day

    At the End of a Perfect Day

    At the End of a Perfect Day

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    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 the End of a Perfect Day
  • 1914
    The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'

    The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'

    The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'

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    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...

    The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush'
  • 1915
    The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church

    The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church

    The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church

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

    The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church
  • 1930
    Maybe It's Love

    Maybe It's Love

    Maybe It's Love

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    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...

    Maybe It's Love
  • 1931
    Young as You Feel

    Young as You Feel

    Young as You Feel

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

    Young as You Feel