Anna Ascends

Miss Brady as a pretty Syrian immigrant girl who struggles to fortune and love. A huge success on the speaking stage; even greater as a picture.

Anna Ascends — 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.

• Release date
• November 20, 1922
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Drama, History
• Director
• Victor Fleming

Anna Ascends — Cast

Alice Brady Anna Ayyob Robert Ellis Howard Fisk David Powell The Baron Nita Naldi Countess Rostoff

F

Frederick Burton Mr. Fisk Charles K. Gerrard Count Rostoff

E

Edouard Durand Siad Coury Florence Dixon Bessie Fisk