Anna Ascends is a 1922 American Romantic silent film directed by Victor Fleming, it's based on the 1920 play of the same name by Henry Chapman Ford. The film was released on November 19/20, 1922. Out of the hour and 2 minutes, only a 6-minute fragment remains of the film.
ACTORS:
Alice Brady as Anna Ayyob
Robert Ellis as Howard Fisk
David Powell as The Baron
Nita Naldi as Countess Rostoff
Charles K. Gerrard as Count Rostoff
Edouard Durand as Siad Coury
Florence Dixon as Bessie Fisk
Grace Griswold as Miss Fisk
Frederick Burton as Mr. Fisk
Benjamin De Casseres as City Editor
Betty Bronson as Bit Part
PLOT:
A Syrian American waitress, Anna Ayyob, works at Siad Coury's coffeehouse in a Syrian neighborhood of New York City. Anna would fall in love with the reporter, Howard Fisk, who is investigating a jewel smuggling ring. Anna discovers her coworker "The Baron" is involved with international thieves Count and Countess Rostoff. Anna phones Howard with the information, but she is attacked by Barron as a result. During the encounter, she accidentally kills the Baron and disappears.
Three years later Anna would anonymously write the popular novel "Anna Ascends" based on her life. She would then meet Howard again. To save Bessie Fisk, Howard's sister, from marrying Count Rostoff she exposes him as a jewel thief. In the process, she admits to the Baron's murder. This was when Howard told Anna she didn't kill the Baron and he was very much alive. Anna and Howard then get married.
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