Merely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann (1931)

The Stars of "Seventh Heaven" "Street Angel" "Sunny Side Up"

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

Date of release
1931-09-06
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 14m
Director
Henry King

Casting

Interesting facts

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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