Merely Mary Ann

1931 film

  • September 6, 1931 (1931-09-06)
Running time
74 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox 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

  • 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

References

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

External links

Media related to Merely Mary Ann (1931 film) at Wikimedia Commons

  • Merely Mary Ann at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Synopsis at AllMovie
  • Merely Mary Ann at Project Gutenberg (Original novel)
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