Merely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann
	File:1931 - Astor Theater Ad - 23 Nov MC - Allentown PA.jpg Newspaper advertisement
Directed by	Henry King
Written by	Jules Furthman
Based on	Merely Mary Ann (play); 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 dates	<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> September 6, 1931; ; ; ; ;
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.3 million

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.

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