Merely Mary Ann

{{Short description|American 1931 film}} {{Multiple issues| {{No significant coverage|date=March 2025}} {{One source|date=March 2025}} }} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{for-multi|the 1916 silent film|Merely Mary Ann (1916 film)|the 1920 silent film|Merely Mary Ann (1920 film)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Merely Mary Ann | image = Merely Mary Ann (1931) lobby card 2.jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]] | producer = | writer = [[Jules Furthman]] | based_on = ''[[Merely Mary Ann (play)|Merely Mary Ann]]'' (1903) by [[Israel Zangwill]] | starring = [[Janet Gaynor]]<br>[[Charles Farrell]]<br>[[Beryl Mercer]] | music = [[Richard Fall]] | cinematography = [[Arthur E. Arling]]<br>[[John F. Seitz]] | editing = [[Frank E. Hull]] | distributor = [[Fox Film Corporation]] | released = {{Film date|1931|09|06}} | runtime = 74 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = $1.3 million<ref name="quig">[https://archive.org/stream/international193738quig#page/942/mode/2up/search/%22box+office%22 Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", ''International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938)'' p 942] accessed April 19, 2014</ref> }} '''''Merely Mary Ann''''' a 1931 American [[Pre-Code Hollywood|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 film)|7th Heaven]]'' (1927), ''[[Street Angel (1928 film)|Street Angel]]'' (1928), and ''[[Lucky Star (1929 film)|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 [[Merely Mary Ann (play)|play of the same name]] and directed by [[Henry King (director)|Henry King]]. {{clear left}}

==Plot== [[File:Janet Gaynor Argentinean Magazine AD.jpg|left|thumb|200px|{{center|[[Janet Gaynor]]}}]] Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

==Cast== * [[Janet Gaynor]] as Mary Ann * [[Charles Farrell]] as John Lonsdale * [[Beryl Mercer]] as Mrs. Leadbatter * [[J. M. Kerrigan]] as First Drayman * Tom Whiteley as Second Drayman * Lorna Balfour as Lorna Leadbatter * [[Arnold Lucy]] as Vicar Smedge * [[G. P. Huntley Jr.|G. P. Huntley]] as Peter Brooke * [[Harry Rosenthal]]

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==External links== {{commons category-inline|Merely Mary Ann (1931 film)}} *{{IMDb title|0022142}} *{{gutenberg|no=20078|name=Merely Mary Ann}} (Original novel)

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