Merely Mary Ann
Appearance
Merely Mary Ann | |
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Directed by | Henry King |
Written by | Jules Furthman Israel Zangwill (play) |
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 |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million[1] |
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
External links
- Merely Mary Ann at IMDb
- Merely Mary Ann at Project Gutenberg (Original novel)
Categories:
- 1931 films
- American films
- American black-and-white films
- English-language films
- Films based on plays
- Films directed by Henry King
- 1930s romantic comedy films
- 1930s comedy-drama films
- American romantic comedy films
- American drama films
- American comedy-drama films
- Screenplays by Jules Furthman
- Fox Film films
- 1930s comedy-drama film stubs
- Romantic comedy film stubs