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Mary Pickford.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Rosita
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Nine reels / 8800 feet
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Mary Pickford [Rosita], George Walsh [Don Diego], Holbrook Blinn [the king], Irene Rich [the queen], Charles Belcher [the prime minister], Frank Leigh [prison commandant], Madame Mathilde Comont [Rosita’s mother], George Periolat [Rosita’s father], Bert Sprotte [big jailer], Snitz Edwards [the little jailer], Madame de Bodamere [maid], Philippe de Lacy [Rosita’s brother], Donald McAlpin [Rosita’s brother], Doreen Turner [Rosita’s sister], Mario Carillo [the majordomo], George Bookasta [a child], Marcella Daly, Charles Farrell, Wilna Hervey, Marian Nixon, Joan Peers
The Mary Pickford Company production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Mary Pickford. Scenario by Edward Knoblock, from an adaptation by Edward Knoblock of the play Don César de Bazan by Adolphe Philippe d’Ennery and Philippe-François Pinel (Dumanoir). Set design by Sven Gade and William Cameron Menzies. Costume design by Mitchell Leisen. Assistant director, James Townsend. Cinematography by Charles Rosher. Music score arranged by Louis F. Gottschalk. / © 17 October 1923 by The Mary Pickford Company [LP19505]. General release, 28 October 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Lubitsch’s first American film; followed by The Marriage Circle (1924). The play was previously filmed as Don Caesar de Bazan (1915); the play was subsequently filmed as The Spanish Dancer (1923). The only nitrate original print known to exist is in a Moscow film archive and it was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in July 1967. The film was reconstructed in 2017.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.4702.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Gosfilmofond film archive; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 7 May 2024.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.4702; Bardèche-History p. 287; Best-Those p. 56; Bohn-Light pp. 88, 89; Brownlow-Parade pp. 120, 129, 130, 131, 133-134, 230; Cooper-Dark p. 190; Eyman-Pickford p. 332; Fell-History pp. 119, 120; Sherwood-Best p. xix; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 36, 90; Youngblood-Soviet p. 42 : Website-IMDb; Website-Pickford.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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