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Merely Mary Ann is a american film of genre Drama directed by Henry King released in USA on 6 september 1931 with Janet Gaynor

Merely Mary Ann (1931)

Merely Mary Ann
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Released in USA 6 september 1931
Length 1h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama,    Romantic comedy,    Melodrama
Rating51% 2.593192.593192.593192.593192.59319

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.




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

Actors

Janet Gaynor

(Mary Ann)Charles Farrell

(John Lonsdale)Beryl Mercer

(Mrs. Leadbatter)J. M. Kerrigan

(First Drayman)Arnold Lucy

(Vicar Smedge)
And :
Harry Rosenthal
G.P. Huntley
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