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title: 'Merely Mary Ann (1931)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Henry King'
released: '1931-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 74
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
  - 'Comedy'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/merely-mary-ann-1931'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022142/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Merely Mary Ann (1931)

1931 · 74 min · Drama, Romance, Comedy · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Henry King](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-king)
- **Screenplay:** [Jules Furthman](https://cinepixo.com/people/jules-furthman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Richard Fall](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-fall)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arthur E. Arling](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-e-arling), [John F. Seitz](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-f-seitz)

## Cast

- [Charles Farrell](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-farrell-2)
- [Beryl Mercer](https://cinepixo.com/people/beryl-mercer)
- [Janet Gaynor](https://cinepixo.com/people/janet-gaynor)
- [Arnold Lucy](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-lucy)
- [J. M. Kerrigan](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-m-kerrigan)

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