Rosita is a 1923 silent American historical comedy drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Mary Pickford.

The film is based upon an 1872 opera Don César de Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe Dumanoir.

Rosita's mother demands for her daughter to have a noble husband, and the king offers for her to be married to Diego.

The king's plan fails when Rosita breaks the rules and looks at her future husband.

Pickford thanked them and promptly set out to make a film with an adult role.

In 1922, her studio United Artists was not making any profits despite releasing successful films such as Broken Blossoms, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921) and Robin Hood (1922).

Pickford was desperate to release a film that could perform well and free her of her image as an ingenue.

She chose Ernst Lubitsch as her director and brought him from Germany in October 1922 to meet with her.

However, the project was dropped when Pickford's mother, Charlotte Hennessy, overheard Lubitsch discussing the baby killing scene and immediately nixed the idea.

Lubitsch and Pickford eventually decided to film the opera Don César de Bazan, retitling it Rosita.

However, in the 1960s a nitrate print was discovered in the Russian film archives and repatriated by The Museum of Modern Art.