Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Marshall Neilan
Cast: Mary Pickford [Rebecca Randall], Eugene O’Brien [Adam Ladd], Helen Jerome Eddy [Hannah Randall], Charles Ogle [Mr. Cobb], Marjorie Daw [Emma Jane Perkins], Mayme Kelso [Aunt Jane Sawyer], Jane Wolff [Mrs. Randall, Rebecca’s mother], Josephine Crowell [Aunt Miranda Sawyer], Jack McDonald [Reverend Jonathan Smellie], Violet Wilkey [Minnie Smellie], Frank Turner [Mr. Simpson], Kate Toncray [Mrs. Simpson], Emma Gerdes [Clara Belle Simpson], ZaSu Pitts
Mary Pickford Film Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Mary Pickford. Scenario by Frances Marion, from the play adaptation Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Charlotte Thompson of the novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland. Assistant director, Dudley Blanchard. Photographed (cinematography) by Walter Stradling. / © 4 September 1917 by Artcraft Pictures Corporation [LP11348]. Released 22 September 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA in June 1920.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3648.
Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation positive]; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positives].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Farms
Listing updated: 7 October 2009.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.3648; Eyman-Pickford pp. 14, 330; Fell-History p. 84; Higashi-Virgins pp. 43, 46, 47, 48, 49-50; Leish-Cinema p. 29; Shipman-Cinema p. 61; Sinyard-Silent p. 75 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.
Home video: DVD.
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