← Back to Cinema Atlas
Discover great cinema and the connections that made it possible.
The Oyster Princess
GERMANY · 1919

The Oyster Princess

Ernst Lubitsch
wealth and social class courtship and marriage American high society fish-out-of-water comedy generational conflict
Watch on MUBI → Stream on Criterion →

Synopsis

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.

More from Ernst Lubitsch

Germany
To Be or Not to Be
1942 •
View →
The Shop Around the Corner
1940 •
View →
That Lady in Ermine
1948 • United States
View →