The Doll

Presaging such playful sex comedies as Ernst Lubitsch’s Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living, THE DOLL follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must wed 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. Starring Ossi Oswalda, a gifted comedic actress who headlined several other silent films for Ernst Lubitsch, notably The Oyster Princess.