1937 film by Paul May, Hans Deppe

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.

1927 silent film by Curtis Bernhardt

A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.

Fräulein Else is a 1924 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.t has been adapted intothe German silent Fräulein Else (1928).

The young English consul's wife who arrived in Shanghai to join him just as he is arrested by the nationalist troops charged with supporting the "enemy". Mary is also arrested and her device of pretending to be a Russian agitatress doesn't work: the Chinese general has seen a photo Ralph's freedom is offered by the general in exchange for the possession of Mary, but before this awful bargain is concluded, the British fleet shells the general's headquarters. He dies, a glass of champagne held aloft: "To China, the country that is strong enough to wait for more centuries." (extracted from J.L pp 70 )