Merely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann
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Directed by Henry King
Written by Jules Furthman
Based on Merely Mary Ann
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
Release date
  • September 6, 1931 (1931-09-06)
Running time
74 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $1.3 million[1]

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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