The Little Cafe (play)

An English-language musical version The Little Cafe was successfully staged in the United States in 1913.

[1] Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative.

His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment.

In 1930 Paramount Pictures made an American adaptation Playboy of Paris directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier.

Paramount also produced a French-language version, Le Petit Café (1931), again starring Chevalier.