The character name Mr. Quaker for the Oyster King would have, it has been suggested, reminded German audiences of the helpful care packages they were sent by well-meaning American Quakers during the deprivation after World War I.
Director Ernst Lubitsch would later earn three Oscar's nominations for directing, in 1930 twice for both the romantic comedy/musical The Love Parade (1929) with Maurice Chevalier and the conspiracy thriller The Patriot (1928), and in 1944, for the romantic fantasy Heaven Can Wait (1943) with Gene Tierney and Don Ameche.
The Oyster Princess (German: Die Austernprinzessin (1919)) is a German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda and Harry Liedtke. It is a grotesque comedy in four acts about an American millionaire's spoiled daughter's marriage that does not go as planned. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Kurt Richter, a frequent collaborator of Lubitsch.