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Merely Mary Ann

 
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Merely Mary Ann

  • Director: Henry King
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Movie Type: Romantic Drama
  • Themes: Rags To Riches, Musician's Life
  • Main Cast: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Beryl Mercer, J.M. Kerrigan, Arnold Lucy
  • Release Year: 1931
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 72 minutes

Plot

In this drama a pianist-composer falls in love with the charwoman who cleans his boardinghouse room. Eventually, she too, falls in love with him. Trouble comes when he finds that he can no longer pay his rent for although he is talented, he refuses to write popular songs and is therefore, always broke. Finally, his patience pays off and he is commissioned to write an opera. Meanwhile the maid inherits a vast fortune. Unfortunately, this frightens the prideful composer away for he does not want people believing that he only married her for her money. Although his opera is successful, the man is terribly unhappy. He then journey's to the cottage where he met his love. Surprisingly, she is there too. Happiness ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast

G.P. Huntley - Peter Brooke; Harry Rosenthal

Credit

Henry King - Director, Frank E. Hull - Editor, James F. Hanley - Composer (Music Score), Arthur E. Arling - Cinematographer, John F. Seitz - Cinematographer, Jules Furthman - Screenwriter, Israel Zangwill - Play Author, Israel Zangwill - Short Story Author
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Merely Mary Ann
Directed by Henry King
Written by Jules Furthman
Israel Zangwill (play)
Starring Janet Gaynor
Charles Farrell
Beryl Mercer
Music by Richard Fall
Cinematography Arthur E. Arling
John F. Seitz
Editing by Frank E. Hull
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date(s) 6 September 1931
Running time 74 mins
Country USA
Language English

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.

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