The Great Garrick

The Great Garrick (1937) is a motion picture directed by James Whale and starring Brian Aherne (as the famous eighteenth century actor David Garrick) and Olivia de Havilland. It also features Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, and Melville Cooper; a young Lana Turner has a bit part. The film was based on the play Ladies and Gentlemen by Ernest Vajda.

Cast

 * Brian Aherne as David Garrick
 * Olivia de Havilland as Germaine Dupont, Countess de la Corbe
 * Edward Everett Horton as Tubby
 * Melville Cooper as M. W. Picard
 * Lionel Atwill as M. Beaumarchais
 * Luis Alberni as Luis Basset
 * Lana Turner as Mademoiselle Auber
 * Marie Wilson as Mademoiselle Nicolle
 * Linda Perry as Mademoiselle Molee
 * Fritz Leiber as Horatio (in the play Hamlet)