 The film also features Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni, Melville Cooper, and future star Lana Turner, who has a bit part.Based on the play "Ladies and Gentlemen" by Ernest Vajda, the film is about the famous eighteenth-century British actor David Garrick, who travels to France for a guest appearance at the Comédie Française.When the French actors hear rumours that he said he will teach them the art of acting, they devise a plot to teach him a lesson.