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THE DOLL (1919)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

64 minutes

Puppeteer's daughter Ossi Oswalda impersonates a mechanical doll to woo baron's nephew Hermann Thimig, with Lubitsch pulling the strings in a prologue. Loosely based on the source story for Coppélia and Audran's operetta La Poupée .

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