To be silent was to be complete, allowing audiences to voice her. Some beautiful stars, like the Hungarian Vilma Banky, quit their careers at the beginning of the sound era — in her case not only ...

The Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim’s battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity ...

Banky was best known for her roles in The Eagle ... The couple had no children and remained together until his death in 1969. Vilma Bánky died on March 18, 1991, aged 90.

Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and ...

Not all the stars of the silent-film era fared well when sound was introduced. The mere prospect of Vilma Bánky’s natural Hungarian accent in 1929’s “This Is Heaven” fell on insensate ...

to a rival actress, Vilma Banky, at present flickering in a U. S. cinema-drama, A Night of Love. Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father ...

Her beginnings are more akin to silent movie stars like Vilma Banky, Mae Murray, and Norma Talmadge, who couldn't make the transition to talkies. "I had one screen test, and they told me there ...

"She brought a coach load up, and I ran Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in The Son of the Sheik. "They fell about laughing — I thought it was the best thing I'd seen for years." For the next ...