The Great Garrick (1937)

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Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1937-10-30
Director: James Whale
Writers: Ernest Vajda
Language: English | French
Stars: Brian Aherne , Olivia de Havilland , Edward Everett Horton , Melville Cooper , Lionel Atwill , Luis Alberni , Lana Turner , Marie Wilson , Linda Perry , Fritz Leiber
Runtime: 89 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Great Garrick (United States of America) , Et galant Eventyr (Denmark) , Przygoda pod Paryżem (Poland) , Suuri Garrick (Finland) , Gáláns kaland (Hungary) , O Grande Garrick (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , The Great Garrick (United Kingdom) , Een liefdesgeschiedenis in de Comédie Française (Netherlands the) , The Great Garrick , Oi erastai (Greece) , Une galante aventure (France, French Republic) , L'ultima beffa di Don Giovanni (Italy) , Великий Гаррик , El gran Garrick (Argentina) , El gran Garrick (Venezuela) , Ladies and Gentlemen (United States of America) , Comédie Française (Netherlands the) , O Grande Garrick (Brazil) , En natt på värdshuset (Sweden)
Plot: The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (eighteenth century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France. Before his departure for Paris he is mistakenly quoted as saying that he is 'going to France to teach the French how to act'. The Comedie Francaise actors and director hear about this and take this as a serious insult and thus plot to embarrass The Great Garrick when he gets to France with a great big prank. The Comedie Francaise troupe takes over an inn on Garrick's road to Paris where he spends the night. What the Comedie Francaise actors don't know is that The Great Garrick is in on the joke and just plays along. A wrench is thrown into the plot when lone, lovely countess shows up looking for a room at the inn. Garrick treats her as though she is one of the troupe but she falls in love with him. Edward Everett Horton plays The Great Garrick's valet.
IMDB:tt0028953