Most Popular George Ade Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
The Fable of Aggie and the Aggravated Attacks Trailer (1914)
25 November 1914
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 and couldn't catch anything more.
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed Trailer (1914)
29 June 1914
The coming "champ" decides he is so good he can go around a Dub like a Cooper around a Barrel.
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine Trailer (1914)
17 June 1914
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps Trailer (1914)
15 July 1914
He was too big for this world when a Phrenologist told him he was a modern Napoleon.
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind Trailer (1914)
30 December 1914
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 Physician.
The Fable of the Syndicate Lover Trailer (1915)
27 January 1915
Kate had a very devoted beau known as George. George loved the girl so hard that he loved all her relatives.
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man Trailer (1914)
22 June 1914
Buchanan Bartlett, shiftless son of Hiram Bartlett, farmer retired, is sent to college to learn things.
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times Trailer (1914)
02 December 1914
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 Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify Trailer (1914)
09 December 1914
Rube Homer Splivins imitates the actions of a famous matinee idol in order to woo his lady love.
The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie Trailer (1914)
07 October 1914
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 secured the services of Nellie, the prize cook.
Just Out of College Trailer (1920)
27 November 1920
In order to win the hand of the girl he loves, Ed Swinger creates a phony business to fool her father.
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure Trailer (1916)
04 October 1916
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 silent film pertaining to baseball.
The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer' Trailer (1914)
28 October 1914
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 they started out to find a Fish.
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in Trailer (1914)
05 August 1914
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.
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth Trailer (1914)
12 August 1914
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 relieve the old gent of all the worry, he said.
The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze' Trailer (1914)
21 October 1914
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 looked like a million dollars to him.
The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy Trailer (1914)
30 September 1914
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, so she got busy.
The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty Trailer (1914)
23 December 1914
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 coffee.
The Fable of the Roistering Blades Trailer (1915)
25 August 1915
Out in the celery belt there is a stunted flag station whose leading citizens still wear gum arctics.
The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter' Trailer (1914)
04 November 1914
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 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush' Trailer (1914)
14 October 1914
Ernest Coppie, an author, was trying to grind out something that could be sold for enough coin to buy himself a good square meal.
Back Home and Broke Trailer (1922)
24 December 1922
When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin.
The Fable of the City Grafter and the Unprotected Rubes Trailer (1915)
06 January 1915
"Sure-thing" Steve and his pals searched the map for prospective country towns in which they could bunco the inhabitants.
The Slim Princess Trailer (1915)
24 May 1915
Gloom overcasts the palace of Count Selim Nalagaski, governor general of Morovenia, Turkey. All efforts to make the count's elder daughter, the Princess Kalora, fat, synonymous with beauty in that country, have failed.
The Prevailing Craze Trailer (1914)
11 November 1914
Dancing instructor Madame Cassell spends the day having her feet trampled by auto enthusiast Wally trying to teach him the prevailing dance craze.
The Fable of the Good People Who Rallied to the Support of the Church Trailer (1915)
10 February 1915
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 a Night Given Over to Revelry Trailer (1915)
28 April 1915
Having declared himself in on a jolly college dinner, Mr. Dubley, member of the class of '88, counted on having a Hot Old Time.
Freshman Love Trailer (1936)
18 January 1936
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.
Hifaluting Tillie and Her Plain Parents Trailer (1915)
20 January 1915
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.
The County Chairman Trailer (1935)
11 January 1935
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 Fable of the 'Good Fairy' Trailer (1914)
01 July 1914
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.
At the End of a Perfect Day Trailer (1915)
26 January 1915
The story opens with an old couple in the evening of life, sitting by the fireside reminiscing the happenings of their younger days.
Young as You Feel Trailer (1931)
06 August 1931
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him.
Old Home Week Trailer (1925)
25 May 1925
Tom Clark, the part owner of a luckless gas station in New York, returns to his place of birth for Old Home Week, posing as the millionaire president of the Amalgamated Oil Co.
Our Leading Citizen Trailer (1922)
14 June 1922
Story of a war hero who preferred fishing to politics.
The Slim Princess Trailer (1920)
14 July 1920
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 younger sister Papova may wed.
The College Widow Trailer (1927)
15 October 1927
Following another instance of the perennial defeat of the Atwater College football team, President Witherspoon is told that unless better athletes can be induced to come to Atwater, he will be asked to resign.
Three Boiled Down Fables Trailer (1914)
11 November 1914
#1: The Household Comedian; #2: Why Essie's Friends Got the Fresh Air; #3: The Prevailing Craze.
Maybe It's Love Trailer (1930)
04 October 1930
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 black-sheep son of a wealthy alumnus.
The Fable 'Proving That Spongers are Found in a Drug Store' Trailer (1914)
18 November 1914
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 while.
Father and the Boys Trailer (1915)
20 December 1915
Wealthy stockbroker Lemuel Morewood wants his sons, Billy and Tom, to learn the business and marry Emily Donelson and Frances Berkeley, respectively.
Just Out of College Trailer (1915)
01 August 1915
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 Slim Girl Who Tried to Keep a Date That Was Never Made Trailer (1916)
13 September 1916
The Fable of One Samaritan Who Got Paralysis of the Helping Hand Trailer (1914)
23 September 1914
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, and after they had told their hard-luck stories, he would dish out coin to them.
Two Pop-Up Fables Trailer (1914)
16 December 1914
"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.
