George Ade Movies

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...

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.

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

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...

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,...

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 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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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.

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