"The Oyster Princess"
1919
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

This witty satire on the American businessman and the Prussian aristocracy tells the story of Ossi (Ossi Oswalda), whose American "Oyster King" father promises to buy her a prince to marry. The victim recommended by their marriage broker is Prince Nucki, who lives in a run-down apartment with his friend Josef. What follows is one of the most lavish weddings ever filmed, but the wedding night is not at all what the "princess" had in mind. With Harry Liedtke, Viktor Janson, Julius Falkenstein and Curt Bois. Silent with English intertitles. "A summoning up of everything Lubitsch had learned about the art of comedy" (Herman G. Weinberg, in The Lubitsch Touch). Black and White.  70 minutes.