In this lively campus comedy, a stern rowing coach sets up a rigorous practice schedule for his team and insists they lead...
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Screen Story
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1936
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George Ade's turn-of-the-century stage success The County Chairman was retailored as a Will Rogers vehicle in 1935. Set in...
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Play Author, Screen Story
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1935
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In this comedy, a successful owner of a meat-packing plant tries to pass on his obsession for punctuality and rules to his...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1931
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For 55 of its 63 minutes, Making the Grade is a silent picture; only the opening sequence and a brief "radio broadcast" scene...
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Screen Story
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1929
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George Ade's barnstorming stage comedy The College Widow (which at one time boasted baseball great Ty Cobb as its leading...
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Play Author
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1927
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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Play Author
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1927
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Thomas Meighan plays Tom Clark, who left his home town to make good -- and wound up as part owner of a hapless gas station....
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Screen Story
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1925
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Wade (George Nash) is a promoter of fake oil stock who sends two of his men, Dan Corvan (Thomas Meighan) and Larry Maddox...
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Intertitle Writer
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1924
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This comedy-drama featured a wry story by humorist George Ade and a warm performance by the always likable Thomas Meighan....
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1922
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This lighthearted political satire marked the first time humorist George Ade wrote a story directly for the screen. The...
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Screenwriter
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1922
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An outright farce produced in Chicago by the Essanay company, this film was set in the country of Morovenia, where fat women...
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Screen Story
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1915
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Director, Screenwriter
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1914
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