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 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.

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 by	Henry King
Written by	Jules Furthman
Based on	Merely Mary Ann (1903) by Israel Zangwill
Starring	Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Beryl Mercer
Cinematography	Arthur E. Arling John F. Seitz
Edited by	Frank E. Hull
Music by	Richard Fall
Distributed by	Fox Film Corporation
Release date	September 6, 1931 (1931-09-06)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million[1]

Janet Gaynor

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