Archival Prints! Jon Mirsalis on Piano (Die Austernprinzessin). A witty satire on idiot Americans abroad as well as on the Prussian aristocracy, The Oyster Princess has been called by Lubitsch biographer Herman G. Weinberg "a summing up of everything Lubitsch had learned about the art of comedy." An American oyster maven promises to buy his daughter a prince of her very own; the victim recommended by their marriage broker is one down-and-out Prince Nucki, whose bald friend Josef is mistaken for the prince and, eventually, the groom in one of the most lavish weddings ever filmed. The preparations for the wedding, with the whole house consumed with "fox-trot fever," is a delightful example of Lubitsch's skill in constructing a musical sequence without benefit of soundtrack.