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Anna Ascends (1922)

Anna Ascends poster
Directed by
Victor Fleming
Genre
silent film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman tries to improve her station in life through romance. The film is based on a Broadway play and most of it is lost.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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