Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1917 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Marshall Neilan based upon the 1903 novel of the same name by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

The film was made by the "Mary Pickford Company" and was an acclaimed box office hit.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] Rebecca Randall (Pickford) is taken into the home of her aunt Hannah (Eddy), a strict New England woman.

Rebecca meets Adam Ladd (O'Brien), a young man of the village, and they become great friends.

More than one film historian has suggested that Rebecca is the main source of misunderstanding of Pickford’s image...Its certainly true that Mary never lets up for a minute in Rebecca—winking, stomping, prancing, too cute for words...[but] her actions lack the spontaneity she displays in her best roles...[7]Basinger adds that, by 1917, moviegoers favored the then 25-year-old Pickford “when she pretended to be a little girl” in her character portrayals.