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Documentation :
1. Franklin, Joe, Classics of the Silent Screen, 1959
2. Banky, Charles [by email]
3. Service, Faith, "Miss Banky from Budapest," Movie Weekly, 18 April 1925
4. Stumpf, Charles K., "Vilma Banky - Hungarian Rhapsody," The World of Yesterday, August 1979; No. 23 
5. Bodeen, DeWitt, Films In Review, August - September 1977 
6. Drew, William M. [by email]
7. Various Excerpts from the Chicago Tribune Newspaper
8. "The New Pictures," Time Magazine, 21 January 1929
9. Motion Picture, September 1926, April 1927, July 1929 
10. New York Times, September 1927, March 1928
11. Picture Show Art Supplement, 25 September 1926 
12. "Cherries Are Ripe" Play Brochure, 1931
13. Various Excerpts from the Syracuse Herald Newspaper
14.  Screenland, June 1929
15. Idols of the Silent Screen [This is a book from the 1950s-60s; I'll post the publisher and year when I re-locate the book]
16. Vossler, Robert [her attorney] now deceased
17. Motion Picture Classic, March 1927
18. "Vilma Banky, Hollywood Star with Short But Influential Career," New York Times Obituaries, Saturday, 12 December 1992
19. "Vilma Banky, Starred Along Side Valentino," Associated Press, 12 December 1992
20. Vazzana, Eugene Michael, Silent Film Necrology, McFarland, 2001.
21. Internet Movie Database
22. Springer, John and Jack Hamilton, They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets of 1930s, Citadel Press, 1974
23. Liebman, Roy, Silent Film Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Published, Unpublished and Archival Sources for over 350 Actors and Actresses, McFarland, 1995.
24. The New York Times Biographical Service
25. Halliwell, Leslie, The Filmgoer's Companion (Fourth & Seventh thru Ninth Editions), Hill and Wang, 1977.
26. 1930 Los Angeles County, California Census
27. Vilma's Social Security Application
28. Weaver, John T., Twenty Years of Silents, 1908-1928, Scarecrow Press, 1971.
29. Ragan, David, Who's Who in Hollywood, 1900-1976, Arlington House, 1976. [Reprinted 1992]
If you can provide copies of the articles and book info from Other Known Sources section, I would love to have it and will re-imburse you appropriately! Thank you!
I strive to keep all information on Banky correct. In order to do so, I consult numerous resources; this list is, by no means, exhaustive. If you have a source to contribute or even information that could be helpful in Banky research, please send an email with the title, author, or work. Thanks for your help!
OTHER KNOWN SOURCES:
1. Masters and Masterpieces of the Screen, P. F. Collier & Son Co., 1927.
2. Bruno, Michael, Venus in Hollywood: The Continental Enchantress from Garbo to Loren, NY: L. Stuart, 1970.
3. "Myrtle Gebhart Looking Back," Picture Play, June 1935
4. "Whatever Became of Vilma Banky?", Motion Picture, December 1946
5. Hollywood Movie Magazine, August 1931
6. "Stars Who Have Vanished," Motion Picture, August 1932
7. Berg, A. Scott, Goldwyn: A Biography, Ballantine Books, 1990
8. "Running Successes of 1927 and Their Film Star Owners," Theatre Magazine, April 1927
9. Hollywood Studio Magazine, April 1980
10. Theatre Magazine, September 1926, May 1929
11. "Vilma Banky - Rod La Rocque Wedding," Saturday Evening Post, 19 June 1937
12. Ardmore, Jane, The Self-Enchanted - Mae Murray: Image of an Era, McGraw-Hill, 1959.
13. Eyman, Scott, The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926 - 1930, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
14. The Household Magazine, August 1927
15. Picture Play, July 1928, April 1929
16. "Rudolph Valentino," Life Magazine, 20 June 1938
17. "The Gary Cooper Story," Screen Album, Summer 1954
18. "Those Were the Days," Film Stars, September 1954
19. The Movie Greats, #3, 1971
20. Lamparski, Richard, Whatever Became Of...? [#10], Crown Publishing, 1986.
21. "Companionate Stardom," Photoplay, March 1928
22. "With Vilma Banky on Location," Picturegoer, May 1929
23. "Hot Dickety-Dog," Photoplay, December 1925
24. "Marry? I Zink Ya," Photoplay, April 1927
25. "The Price They Paid for Stardom," Photoplay, November 1926
26. "The Americanization of Vilma Banky," Vanity Fair, March 1928
27. "A Beautiful Blonde," Picturegoer, November 1926
28. "The Awakening," Screen Book, January 1929 [Banky cover]
29. "Interview With Vilma Banky," Movie Magazine, March 1926 [Banky cover]
30. Parish, James Robert, Hollywood's Great Love Teams, Arlington House, 1974.
31. Gloria Swanson Papers, ca. 1914 - 1983, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of TX at Austin
32. Stars of Photoplay: Portraits of the Famous Film Stars with Short Bios, Photoplay Magazine, 1930.
33. "Cherries Are Ripe," Variety, 22 October 1930 and 15 April 1931
34. Sommer, Robin Langley, Hollywood Glamour 1919-1941, Gallery Books, 1988.
35. Blum, Daniel C., A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953, 1982.
36. Photoplay, November 1925, March 1926
37. Graham, Sheilah, The Garden of Allah, Crown Publishers, 1970.
38. "Lessons in Love," Motion Picture Classic, August 1929
39. New Movie, November 1930
40. McCall's, May 1930
41. "The First 50 Years," Hollywood [Movie Magazine], April 1939
42. "The Son of the Sheik," The Motion Picture Director, July 1926
42. Picture Show, 15 January 1927 [Colman/Banky cover]