Brian Aherne
David Garrick
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The Great Garrick
1937
- 1937 · Comedy · 1h 31m
The Great Garrick is a 1937 American historical comedy film directed by James Whale and starring Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, and Edward Everett Horton. The film also features Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni, Melville Cooper, and future star Lana Turner, who has a bit part.
The Great Garrick: Directed by James Whale. With Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper. A Paris troupe puts on outlandish performances for a celebrated 18th-century British actor in order to convince him of their talents.
- (773)
- Comedy, Romance
- James Whale
- 1937-10-30
The Great Garrick (1937) is a fictional comedy set around a real person, the 18th-century British actor David Garrick, widely considered one of the greatest of all time. After performing a show at London's Drury Lane Theater, Garrick (Brian Aherne) announces that he has accepted an invitation to appear on the Paris stage for a guest season.
- James Whale, Sherry Shourds
- Brian Aherne
The Great Garrick (Brian Aherne) is the most celebrated London theater actor of his day (18th century) and is invited to Paris to star at the Comedie Francaise, the most important theatre in France.
The Great Garrick. Among film's distinctive features are a strictly fictional romantic comedy story around the person of David Garrick, 18th-century English actor, a production of superlative...
The Great Garrick is an unusual, sometimes brilliant comedy presenting a fictional chapter from the life of the great English actor David Garrick (Brian Aherne).
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This 1937 screwball duel between David Garrick and the Comédie-Française, based on a stage play by Hungarian émigré Ernest Vajda, is the best chance the Hollywood studio system—here Warner Bros., rescuing Whale's wishes from recalcitrant Universal—ever gave him.
