Notes on…

The Doll(1919)

Dir. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch


- Don't forget to oil her twice a week.

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Synopsis: 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.