Merely Mary Ann

For the 1916 silent film, see Merely Mary Ann (1916 film). For the 1920 silent film, see Merely Mary Ann (1920 film).

Merely Mary Ann
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Directed byHenry King
Written byJules Furthman
Based onMerely Mary Ann (1903) by Israel Zangwill
StarringJanet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Beryl Mercer
CinematographyArthur E. Arling
John F. Seitz
Edited byFrank E. Hull
Music byRichard Fall
Distributed byFox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 6, 1931 (1931-09-06)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.3 million[1]
Janet Gaynor

Merely Mary Ann a 1931 American pre-Code romantic comedy drama film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics 7th Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The film, involving an orphan (Gaynor) and a flat-broke composer (Farrell), was written by Jules Furthman based upon Israel Zangwill's play of the same name and directed by Henry King.

Plot

Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942 accessed April 19, 2014

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