Rebecca Randall (Mary Pickford) is adopted by her stern maiden aunts, Emma Jane Perkins and Miranda Sawyer, to relieve her mother, who has six other children to rear. Rebecca's girlish antics severely try her cranky old aunts, who finally pack her off to boarding school. She returns a young lady and wins the heart of Adam Ladd, an upstanding young man. Rebecca's happiness is clouded when Aunt Miranda passes away, but as the months pass, sunshine returns to her life when the mortgage is paid on her mother's farm and she marries Adam.

The first of three film adaptations of Wiggin’s novel, this film was written by Frances Marion.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)

Adapted from: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1903)

Director: Marshall Neilan

Year: 1917

Studio: Mary Pickford Company

Genre: Drama

Survival status: Available online