The Great Garrick (1937)

Directors

James Whale, Mervyn LeRoy

Cast

Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper

The story

In London in 1750, renowned English actor David Garrick announces at the end of a performance that he has been invited to Paris to appear with the prestigious Comédie-Française. A fop declares that the French want Garrick to teach them how to act, and the audience raises the chant, "Teach the French!" The playwright Beaumarchais, who was there, attributes the remark to Garrick himself, which outrages the Parisian theatre company. He devises a plot to cut Garrick down to size.

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