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The Doll
GERMANY · 1919

The Doll

Ernst Lubitsch
marriage of convenience disguise and deception wealth and inheritance artificial vs. real romantic comedy
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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.

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