Anna Ascends (1922)
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.
60 min
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.
- Data de estreia
- 20 de novembro de 1922
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Alice Brady como Anna Ayyob
- Robert Ellis como Howard Fisk
- David Powell como The Baron
- Nita Naldi como Countess Rostolff
- Charles K. Gerrard como Count Rostoff
- Edouard Durand como Siad Coury
- Florence Dixon como Bessie Fisk
- Grace Griswold como Miss Fisk
- Frederick Burton como Mr. Fisk
- Benjamin De Casseres como City Editor
Equipe
- Victor Fleming · Diretor(a)
- Harry Chapman Ford · Roteirista
- Margaret Turnbull · Roteirista
- Gilbert Warrenton · Diretor(a) de fotografia