- A Paris troupe puts on outlandish performances for a celebrated 18th-century British actor in order to convince him of their talents. The arrival of a countess complicates the plot.
- 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. 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 an enormous 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.—Lisa Rome
- True to the person in question, a fictional story of famed and larger-than-life - especially in his own mind - British actor David Garrick (1717-1779) is told. It's 1750, and he is accepting an invitation from the famed Comédie-Française acting troupe in Paris to appear with them for the remainder of the season, it arguably as renowned as his own home troupe at the Drury Lane in London. Something that happens at his final performance at the Drury Lane gets back to the troupe in Paris that is misassigned to him: that he is going to Paris to teach them how to act. Rather than retract the invitation in their humiliation as was their initial inclination, those at the Comédie-Française instead decide to show him that they indeed can act. What they intend to do is overtake the Adam and Eve, the inn at which Garrick is scheduled to stop at one evening en route to Paris, pretending to be the innkeepers, staff and guests with him the unwitting "star" of their "play", they in the process intending to place him in the most uncomfortable of situations. Word gets back to him that the troupe is doing something unknown at the Adam and Eve to show him up, he seeing first hand what it is upon his arrival. As such, he decides that he will show them up instead by playing along only to get the final laugh when the proverbial curtain comes down. As the "play" proceeds, he discovers the center of the piece is a beautiful damsel in distress by the name of Germaine Dupont who is running away from a situation not of her liking back in Paris and is requiring refuge in the already full inn. The problem for Garrick is that Germaine is indeed a damsel in distress who stumbled upon this situation unwittingly as she believes she and Garrick have indeed fallen in love as Garrick, the actor, plays out his end of the story.—Huggo
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