The Doll

1h 6m
ComedyFantasyRomance
7.3

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.

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)

Crew

Ernst Lubitsch
Director, Writer
Hanns Kräly
Writer
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Story
Theodor Sparkuhl
Director of Photography
Kurt Waschneck
Director of Photography
Paul Davidson
Producer
Kurt Richter
Costume Design, Art Direction
A.E. Willner
Musical

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