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<i>Merely Mary Ann</i>

Merely Mary Ann

1931 film

For the 1916 silent film, see Merely Mary Ann (1916 film). For the 1920 silent film, see Merely Mary Ann (1920 film).

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.

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Janet Gaynor

Plot

Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

Cast

References

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

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