Merely Mary Ann
| Merely Mary Ann | |
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| Directed by | Henry King |
| Written by | Jules Furthman |
| Based on | Merely Mary Ann (1903) by Israel Zangwill |
| 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 |
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.