Topaze

John Barrymore is the naive title character, a fired chemistry teacher, assisted by Myrna Loy, who has taken a shine to him, but who is the mistress of the Baron (Reginald Mason) who, with financier Henri (Albert Conti), is out to exploit his good name with a bogus product, in Topaze, 1933.

Something of a soliloquy for the leading man and title character, John Barrymore as a Parisian chemistry teacher, Jackie Searle as “De La Tour La Tour,” spoiled son of wealth, his only credited student, in Universal’s Topaze, 1933, from a Marcel Pagnol play.