The Doll

About 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 dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

The Doll is a 1919 comedy fantasy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Released in December 1919, it runs 66 minutes.

The film is filed under artificial intelligence (a.i.) and silent film.

Ossi Oswalda appears as Ossi, the Dollmaker’s Daughter, Victor Janson as Hilarius, the Dollmaker, Hermann Thimig as Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew, and Max Kronert as Baron von Chanterelle. The screenplay is by Ernst Lubitsch and Hanns Kräly. American members can watch it on FlixFling.

Jexi, Faust, and For Heaven's Sake make useful companions to The Doll, all filed under romance. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 98 votes.