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Anna Ascends

9.0 60 mins Drama   History   1922
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation  
Director(s): Victor Fleming

Release Date: 20 Mon, Nov 1922

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.

Casts of Anna Ascends

Alice Brady

as Anna Ayyob

Robert Ellis

as Howard Fisk

David Powell

as The Baron

Nita Naldi

as Countess Rostoff

Frederick Burton

as Mr. Fisk

Charles K. Gerrard

as Count Rostoff

Edouard Durand

as Siad Coury

Florence Dixon

as Bessie Fisk

Grace Griswold

as Miss Fisk

Benjamin De Casseres

as City Editor

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