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“Four amusing acts from a toy-chest” — so reads the opening title of the comic masterpiece Die Puppe. [ The Doll. ] adapted by Lubitsch and co-scenarist Hanns Kräly from a libretto by A. M. Wilner (based in turn on a tale from E. T. A. Hoffmann). Ossi Oswalda stars in a double-role as both the mischievous daughter, and automatonic creation, of a wildly coiffed “dollmaker”. When a wealthy baron decides the time has come for his prudish nephew to take a wife, an uproariously ribald plot unwinds into what is perhaps the world’s first-ever sex-doll comedy.
Original Release
12/05/1919
US Release
07/22/2011
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Hermann Thimig | Lancelot |
| Victor Janson | Hilarius |
| Marga Köhler | Dessen Frau / Wife of Hilarius |
| Ossi Oswalda | Ossi - His Daughter / Ossi / The Doll |
| Gerhard Ritterband | Der Lehrling / The Apprentice |
| Jakob Tiedtke | Der Briar / The Abbott |
| Josefine Dora | Lancelot's Maid / Lancelot's Housekeeper / Lancelots Kindermädchen |
| Lapitski | |
| Paul Morgan | Hippolyt, Diener des Barons |
| Hedy Searle |
Directors
Writers
Ernst Lubitsch, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Hanns Kräly, A.E. Willner
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Hermann Thimig | Lancelot |
| Victor Janson | Hilarius |
| Marga Köhler | Dessen Frau / Wife of Hilarius |
| Ossi Oswalda | Ossi - His Daughter / Ossi / The Doll |
| Gerhard Ritterband | Der Lehrling / The Apprentice |
| Jakob Tiedtke | Der Briar / The Abbott |
| Josefine Dora | Lancelot's Maid / Lancelot's Housekeeper / Lancelots Kindermädchen |
| Lapitski | |
| Paul Morgan | Hippolyt, Diener des Barons |
| Hedy Searle | |
| Arthur Weinschenk | |
| Ernst Lubitsch | Director in Prologue |
| Mingyu | Baron von Chanterelle / Baron of Chanterelle |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Paul Davidson | Producer |
