Janice Meredith, also known as The Beautiful Rebel, is a silent film starring Marion Davies, released in 1924 and based on the book and play A Colonial Girl written by Paul Leicester Ford and Edward Everett Rose. The play opened at the end of 1900 and was the first starring vehicle for stage actress Mary Mannering. The movie follows the actions of Janice Meredith, who helps George Washington and Paul Revere during the American Revolutionary War.
Lobby card
Janice Meredith film still, 1925
Harrison Ford and Marion Davies
William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer.
Fields in 1938
Caricature by Ralph Barton, 1925
Fields's prominent warning to "Nibblers" in the June 13, 1919, issue of Variety threatening legal action against anyone using his material
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Fields on The Chase and Sanborn Hour, c. 1945