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
Anna Ayyob

Robert Ellis
Howard Fisk

Robert Ellis
Howard Fisk

David Powell
The Baron

Nita Naldi
Countess Rostoff

Frederick Burton
Mr. Fisk

Charles K. Gerrard
Count Rostoff

Charles K. Gerrard
Count Rostoff

Edouard Durand
Siad Coury

Florence Dixon
Bessie Fisk

Grace Griswold
Miss Fisk

Benjamin De Casseres
City Editor

Victor Fleming
Director

Adolph Zukor
Producer

Harry Chapman Ford
Writer

Margaret Turnbull
Writer

Louis Meyer
Visual Effects

Gilbert Warrenton
Director of Photography
Media.



Details.
Release DateNovember 20, 1922
StatusReleased
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Genres
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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.