Vilma Banky - Ross Postcards

Vilma Bánky - Ross Postcards

Vilma Bánky Biography
Date of Birth: 09.01.1898, Nagydorog, Austria-Hungary
Date of Death: 18.03.1991, Los Angeles, California

Vilma Bánky appeared in Hungarian, Austrian and French movies between 1920 and 1925,
the year in which Samuel Goldwyn signed her, in Budapest, to a Hollywood contract.
In Hollywood she was billed as the "The Hungarian Rhapsody". In the mid and late 1920s
she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, especially playing with Ronald Colman.
Her best-known works were with Rudolph Valentino: daughter of a Russian aristocrat in
The Eagle (1925) and an Arab dancer in The Son of the Sheik (1926). Her first talking
movie was This Is Heaven (1929). She toured the U.S. in "Cherries Are Ripe" with her
husband Rod La Rocque in 1930-1 and, the next year, went with him to Germany to make
her last film.@ By: Ed Stephan