Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
About Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
The mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm is behind, and there is not enough food for seven children. Rebecca's mother sends her to Riverboro to live with rich Aunt Miranda. Miranda treats her like a prisoner. Girls at school call her missy poor-house. She stays at her lessons and helps people who have less. Mary Pickford plays Rebecca.
Cast & crew
More about Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Marshall Neilan directed. Frances Marion adapted Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1903 novel. Walter Stradling photographed it. Pickford produced it. The story is set in Maine. When the play opened on Broadway in the 1910 season, Edith Taliaferro played Rebecca. Eugene O'Brien, Helen Jerome Eddy, Marjorie Daw, Charles Ogle, and Mayme Kelso are billed. Milton Berle and ZaSu Pitts are on the Wikidata cast.
Themes
Look
Walter Stradling photographed Pickford as Rebecca, with the company shooting in California for a Maine story.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Kate Toncray is also billed.
- The English Wikipedia calls the picture a box-office hit and does not give a figure.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Scenes
- Rebecca is sent from the farm to Aunt Miranda because the mortgage and the meals will not stretch.
- Schoolgirls call her missy poor-house.
Influenced by
- Kate Douglas Wiggin's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
