The Doll
1919 · 66 min · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
- Director
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Writers
- Ernst Lubitsch, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hanns Kräly
- Released
- December 5, 1919
- Language
- German
Cast
Ossi Oswalda
Ossi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter / The Doll
Victor Janson
Hilarius, the Dollmaker
Hermann Thimig
Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew
Max Kronert
Baron von Chanterelle
Marga Köhler
Frau Hilarius, The Dollmaker’s Wife
Gerhard Ritterband
The Apprentice
Jakob Tiedtke
The Prior
Josefine Dora
Lancelot's Nanny
Paul Morgan
Hippolyt, the Baron's Servant
Ernst Lubitsch
Director in Prologue (uncredited)
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