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Shoe Palace Pinkus
Shoe Palace Pinkus (German: Schuhpalast Pinkus) is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Lubitsch, Else Kentner and Guido Herzfeld. In English it is sometimes known by the alternative titles Shoe Salon Pinkus and The Shoe Palace. It was part of the Sally series of films featuring Lubitsch as a sharp young Berliner of Jewish heritage. After leaving school, a self-confident young man goes to work in a shoe shop. Soon after, he becomes a shoe tycoon.
as "Die Firma heiratet" (1914), "Der Stolz der Firma" (1914), "Schuhpalast Pinkus" (1916), "Der schwarze Moritz" (1916). In "Shoe Palace Pinkus" (1916) Lubitsch first performed as a character named "Sally Pinkus", a Jewish boy who prefers being lazy and acting as a class clown instead of working for school. He cheats on his tests and chases girls. "Der Fall Rosentopf" (1918) featured the character Sally once again