It's Theodora Goes Wild

All the dialogue in Fredric March's new "play" is from the Irene Dunne/Melvyn Douglas movie "Theodora Goes Wild." It's virtually word for word. The "gardener" referred to is Melvyn Douglas (who is only pretending to be a gardener). Columbia, the distributor of this film, made "Theodora Goes Wild," but none of the writers overlap between the films. Interestingly, in "Bedtime Story," the actors playing the onstage scene are not meant to be in a comedy.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. Gandhi.