Rosita
(1923) American
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 [majordomo], Marian Nixon, Charles Farrell

The Mary Pickford Company production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Mary Pickford. Scenario by Edward Knoblock, from the adaptation by Edward Knoblock. Set design by Sven Gade. Cinematography by Charles Rosher. / © 17 October 1923 by The Mary Pickford Company [LP19505]. General release 28 October 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Lubitsch’s first American film. The only nitrate original print known to exist is in a Moscow film archive, and was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in July 1967.

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].

Listing updated: 19 September 2007.

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 p. 119; Sherwood-Best p. xix; Vermilye-Twenties pp. 36, 90; Youngblood-Soviet p. 42 : Website-Pickford.