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 |
Music by | Richard Fall |
Cinematography |
Arthur E. Arling John F. Seitz |
Edited by | Frank E. Hull |
Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time
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74 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.3 million |
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.