Pinkus's Shoe Palace
About Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Sally Pinkus is thrown out of school for fooling around and takes a job in a shoe shop. He is fired for courting the owner's daughter. A smarter salon fires him too. He talks a rich woman into backing a store of his own, Pinkus's Shoe Palace, and he runs it.
Cast & crew
More about Pinkus's Shoe Palace
Ernst Lubitsch directed and plays Sally. Hanns Kräly and Erich Schönfelder wrote it. Paul Davidson produced it at PAGU. It opened on June 9, 1916, at the Union-Theater on Nollendorfplatz and at the U.T. Kurfürstendamm in Berlin. Wikidata gives 60 minutes. English Wikipedia bills Else Kentner and Guido Herzfeld with Lubitsch. Ossi Oswalda, Fritz Rasp, and Kräly are also in the cast lists. It is one of the Sally films, with Lubitsch as a sharp young Jewish Berliner.
Themes
Making
Lubitsch plays the clerk and directs the shop scenes in Berlin.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The German title is Schuhpalast Pinkus. English titles also include Shoe Salon Pinkus and The Shoe Palace.
- Sally's last shop is the one with his name on it.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
- The premiere houses were both Berlin Union-Theater sites.
Scenes
- Sally is fired for courting the owner's daughter.
- The rich backer funds Pinkus's Shoe Palace.
