Guitry wrote many plays for her, some musical and others straight comedies. Both he and his father appeared with her in several of them, including "Mon Père avait raison" and "Comment on ecrit l'histoire". They played together not only in Paris, but in the West End of London. All three appeared at the Aldwych Theatre in a four-week season in 1920. Sir John Gielgud wrote that Printemps and her husband "returned … many times to delight London in various pieces artfully contrived by him to show them both off to the best possible advantage." He described her thus: