Merely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann
Directed by	Henry King
Written by	Jules Furthman Israel Zangwill (play)
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 dates	September 6, 1931
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million[1]

Janet Gaynor

Merely Mary Ann (1931) is a 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 from Israel Zangwill's play and directed by Henry King.

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

References

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

External links

• Merely Mary Ann at the Internet Movie Database
• Merely Mary Ann at Project Gutenberg (Original novel)