Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919) 

Directed by F. Richard Jones

Cast: 
Bothwell Browne .... Captain Bob White 
Ford Sterling .... The Kaiser 
Malcolm St. Clair .... The Crown Prince
Bert Roach .... Von Hindenburg 
Ben Turpin .... A Guardsman 
Charles Murray .... An Irish Soldier
Marie Prevost .... A Belgian Girl 
Eva Thatcher .... The Kaiserin 
Joseph Belmont .... Von Tirpitz
Chester Conklin .... Officer of Death's Head Hussars 
Phyllis Haver .... Undetermined Role 
Jane Allen - Heinie Conklin - Bobby Dunn 
James Finlayson .... German Prison Guard
Eddie Foy- Harry Gribbon - Laurel Lee Hamilton
Harriet Hammond - Frank Hayes - Fanny Kelly 
Edgar Kennedy .... German Prison Guard
Tom Kennedy .... American officer
Myrtle Lind - Marvel Rea - Wayland Trask

Cinematography by Fred Jackman and J. R. Lockwood 


REVIEWS:

YANKEE DOODLE IN BERLIN
starring Bothwell Browne, Ford Sterling, Mal St. Clair and Marie Prevost
VARIETY
March 14, 1919

Bothwell Browne is starred in this five-part Mack Sennett film comedy, "Yankee Doodle in Berlin" which had its initial presentation at the Tivoli, San Francisco, last week. The title infers a war plot. While this is true to an extent, it does not prevail throughout the laughable scenes of the picture.

The entire film deals with the Germans in a comedy vein. Mr. Browne as an American aviator is sent to Germany with instructions to obtain valuable war maps the Kaiser personally possessed.

Browne dons the attire of a woman and proceeds to "vamp" his way into the entire German home of the Hohenzollerns. The scenes showing the rivalry between the Kaiser, Crown Prince and Hindy to win the affection of the female impersonator are sure fire.
The clever satire on the Germans' idea of conducting the war runs throughout the story.

The cast is excellent and well chosen for types. Ford Sterling stands out, and another outstanding feature is "Hindy's" personal body guard, whose brutal comedy is a scream.
The war's ending has little effect on this picture, as the major portion of it was apparently filmed after the signing of the armistice.

The captions and titles are humorous and clever and good for many laughs. As an added attraction six of Sennett's bathing girls appeared in an offering consisting of poses, dances and song.

After the picture was shown, the curtain rose on an oriental setting in which Browne appeared in person and did some of the dances he performed in the picture. Mr. Browne was assisted by the Sennett girls in this.

The picture is full of action and laughs and played to capacity the entire week here at the Tivoli. The appearance of the Sennett bathing girls and Bothwell Browne I person proved a big help in the record business.

REVIEW:
Author: boblipton from New York City
A funny and stylistically interesting feature from the Sennett studio directed by wunderkind Richard Jones. Although his comedies generally featured human-looking comics for Sennett and Roach, as opposed to the grotesques made popular at Keystone, in this one he combines the two styles: the Allies look and act like normal people, but the Germans are in the full grotesque makeup of the earlier films, acting with the exaggerated mannerisms one expects from the Sennett studio. The entire Sennett company is on view here and the jokes are crude, take advantage of the propaganda of the era -- there is a joke about German soldiers capturing a Belgian convent -- and funny.
If you don't know this style of comedy, you may be taken aback by it. If, however, you like this sort of thing -- and I do -- you will have a lot of fun.