David Garrick
Cast & Crew
Frank Lloyd
Dustin Farnum
Winifred Kingston
Herbert Standing
Frank Bonn
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Film Details
Synopsis
In mid-eighteenth century London, actor David Garrick, who is bringing about the acceptance of the stage among the aristocracy, falls in love for the first time with a woman watching him play "Romeo" at the Drury Lane Theatre. He fails to learn her identity, and, after searching for weeks, despairs of finding her. Soon after, Simon Ingot, a wealthy tradesman, offers Garrick money to leave England, because his daughter Ada has fallen in love with the actor. Garrick refuses the money, and after giving his word as an actor that he will not marry any man's daughter unless her father asks with hat in hand, offers to cure Ada's fascination at a dinner party. Although Garrick discovers that Ada is the woman whom he loves, he honors his promise and behaves like a drunkard until she orders him to leave. When the story is told in a tavern, Ada's rejected suitor, dissolute Squire Richard Chivy, hears it and then tells Ada while he is half-intoxicated. Ada visits Garrick in his rooms where Ingot finds her, but after he realizes Garrick's true character, he consents to their marriage.
Director
Frank Lloyd
Cast
Dustin Farnum
Winifred Kingston
Herbert Standing
Frank Bonn
Lydia Yeamans Titus
Olive White
Mary Mersch
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Notes
E. A. Sothern played the title role in the first stage production. This film is listed in the Paramount studio records under the title David Garrick (A Man's Choice). Other films based on the same source include four British films: one in 1912, two in 1913, and one in 1928. Warner Bros. released The Great Garrick in 1937, directed by James Whale and starring Brian Aherne, which was not based on the play, but on the life of Garrick.
