The Doll (1919)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

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)