Anna Ascends (1922)
1h
Running Time
November 20, 1922Release Date
Plot.
While working in Siad Coury’s coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City, Syrian immigrant Anna Ayyob falls in love with reporter, Howard Fisk, who is investigating a jewel smuggling ring. When she discovers that her co-worker, “The Baron,” is involved with international thieves Count and Countess Rostoff, Anna telephones Howard with the information, but the Baron attacks her. During the encounter, she believes she accidentally kills him, and disappears. Three years later, after anonymously writing a widely popular novel called Anna Ascends, based on her own life, Anna again meets Howard Fisk. To save Howard’s sister, Bessie Fisk, from marrying Count Rostoff, Anna exposes the jewel thief and confesses to the Baron’s murder. Fortunately, Howard’s investigation discloses that the Baron is very much alive. Her named cleared, Anna marries Howard.
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Cast & Crew.
![Alice Brady](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/44445-alice-brady.webp)
Alice Brady
Anna Ayyob
![Robert Ellis](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/202342-robert-ellis.webp)
Robert Ellis
Howard Fisk
![Robert Ellis](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/102322-robert-ellis.webp)
Robert Ellis
Howard Fisk
![David Powell](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/114815-david-powell.webp)
David Powell
The Baron
![Nita Naldi](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/22407-nita-naldi.webp)
Nita Naldi
Countess Rostoff
![Frederick Burton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16853-frederick-burton.webp)
Frederick Burton
Mr. Fisk
![Charles K. Gerrard](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/9000-charles-k-gerrard.webp)
Charles K. Gerrard
Count Rostoff
![Charles K. Gerrard](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Charles K. Gerrard
Count Rostoff
![Edouard Durand](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Edouard Durand
Siad Coury
![Florence Dixon](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/716747-florence-dixon.webp)
Florence Dixon
Bessie Fisk
![Grace Griswold](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Grace Griswold
Miss Fisk
![Benjamin De Casseres](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Benjamin De Casseres
City Editor
![Victor Fleming](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/29131-victor-fleming.webp)
Victor Fleming
Director
![Adolph Zukor](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/155631-adolph-zukor.webp)
Adolph Zukor
Producer
![Harry Chapman Ford](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Harry Chapman Ford
Writer
![Margaret Turnbull](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/173997-margaret-turnbull.webp)
Margaret Turnbull
Writer
![Louis Meyer](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Louis Meyer
Visual Effects
![Gilbert Warrenton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/1117566-gilbert-warrenton.webp)
Gilbert Warrenton
Director of Photography
Media.
![Anna Ascends](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/1074972-anna-ascends.webp)
![Anna Ascends](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/1/1074972-anna-ascends.webp)
![Anna Ascends](https://images.moviefit.me/t/c/b/2/1074972-anna-ascends.webp)
Details.
Release DateNovember 20, 1922
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Genres
Last updated:
Wiki.
Anna Ascends is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming, and based on the 1920 play of the same title by Harry Chapman Ford. Alice Brady reprises her starring role from the Broadway play. The film is largely lost, with only a six-minute fragment still in existence.