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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.
Original Release
09/06/1931
US Release
09/06/1931
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet Gaynor | Mary Ann |
Charles Farrell | John Lonsdale |
Beryl Mercer | Mrs. Leadbatter |
J.M. Kerrigan | First Drayman |
Tom Whiteley | Second Drayman |
Arnold Lucy | Vicar Smedge |
G.P. Huntley | Peter Brooke / Peter Brooke (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) |
Harry Rosenthal |
Directors
Writers
Jules Furthman, Leon Gordon, Israel Zangwill
Cast
Name | Character |
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Janet Gaynor | Mary Ann |
Charles Farrell | John Lonsdale |
Beryl Mercer | Mrs. Leadbatter |
J.M. Kerrigan | First Drayman |
Tom Whiteley | Second Drayman |
Arnold Lucy | Vicar Smedge |
G.P. Huntley | Peter Brooke / Peter Brooke (as G.P. Huntley Jr.) |
Harry Rosenthal |