Merely Mary Ann (1931)
- Directed by
- Henry King
- Genre
- drama film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young orphan and a poor composer meet and begin a relationship. They help each other through difficult times.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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