The Doll

The Doll

66 mins | Comedy, Fantasy | Dec. 5, 1919

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 puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

The Doll

66 mins | Comedy, Fantasy | Dec. 5, 1919

The Doll
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 puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Projektions-AG Union (PAGU)
Original title Die Puppe
Directors Ernst Lubitsch
Writers A.E. Willner, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch

Cast

Ossi Oswalda

as Ossi / The Doll

Hermann Thimig

as Lancelot

Victor Janson

as Hilarius

Josefine Dora

as Lancelot's Housekeeper / Lancelots Kindermädchen

Marga Köhler

as Wife of Hilarius

Max Kronert

as Baron of Chanterelle

Gerhard Ritterband

as The Apprentice

Jakob Tiedtke

as The Abbott

Paul Morgan

as Hippolyt, Diener des Barons