Merely Mary Ann
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 Seventh 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. 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.
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| Directed by | Henry King |
| Written by | Jules Furthman |
| Based on | Merely Mary Ann (play) by Israel Zangwill |
| Starring | Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Beryl Mercer |
| Music by | Richard Fall |
| Cinematography | Arthur E. Arling John F. Seitz |
| Edited by | Frank E. Hull |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.3 million[1] |
Plot
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
Cast
- Janet Gaynor as Mary Ann
- Charles Farrell as John Lonsdale
- Beryl Mercer as Mrs. Leadbatter
- J. M. Kerrigan as First Drayman
- Tom Whiteley as Second Drayman
- Lorna Balfour as Lorna Leadbatter
- Arnold Lucy as Vicar Smedge
- G.P. Huntley as Peter Brooke
- Harry Rosenthal
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References
External links
- Merely Mary Ann on IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Merely Mary Ann at Project Gutenberg (Original novel)
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