Main Features
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A Lady to Love (Lots of information on the movie)
-- The La Rocque - Banky Wedding (All about the "Social Event of 1927")
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The Night of Love (In-depth movie plot with lots of pictures from the 1927 Picture Show Review, also a review of the movie) 
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This Is Heaven - (Movie Herald)
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The Rebel - (Description of the movie, cast listing, pictures, articles, and more)
**NEW
-- Vilma Banky's Car: 1927 Lincoln Sedan

Magazine Features
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Cherries Are Ripe Play Brochure 
-- Actress Shuns Publicity: Vilma Banky keeps her lips sealed
-- Vilma Banky Feature from
The World of Yesterday, 1979 
-- Miss Banky from Budapest (Announcing Vilma's arrival in America from
Movie Weekly, April 18, 1925)
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A Lady to Love Movie Herald 
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Screenland, June 1929: Including the Hon-garian! - Vilma Banky - or Athletics with An Accent!

Various Ads, Articles, and Other
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The Rebel Newspaper Article No. 1 (Just a picture)
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The Rebel Newspaper Article No. 2 (Just a picture)
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Handiwork of the Stars: Vilma's Needlepoint
-- Page from the Eastman Theatre Magazine  on Son of the Sheik
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More Imported Love Birds
-- Magazine Publicity Photo Page from The Magic Flame
-- Newspaper Clipping from The Awakening
-- Beautiful image from a German publication promoting The Night of Love [Thank you so much to Daniela C. -- visit her website, www.giovanni-severi.com]
-- Second image from German publication for The Night of Love
-- Vilma in Photoplay portrait section promoting The Dark Angel
-- "At the End of Love's Celluloid Trail": picture and short anecdote with Vilma and Ronald Colman
-- Article on James Hall and Vilma Banky, promoting This Is Heaven
-- "Two Soldiers": Image from The Awakening with Vilma and Walter Byron
-- Fan movie magazine portrait from 1930
-- Movie magazine portrait promoting The Awakening
-- Movie magazine image of Vilma and Walter Byron, promoting their upcoming picture, The Awakening
-- Modern magazine spread with lots of pictures on The Son of the Sheik
-- Vilma Banky pictures and short articles from
Motion Picture, July 1929 
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Vilma Banky Portrait from Idols of the Silent Screen 
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Ronald Colman & Vilma Banky Magazine Portrait from Motion Picture "Classic," March 1927
-- Full Page Picture from Motion Picture, April 1927: Vilma -- Hard to Please?
-- When Vilma Invaded Hollywood article
-- Vilma Banky in Cherries Are Ripe article from
Vanity Fair
-- 1927 Magazine Article:
Picture from The Magic Flame
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Vilma Banky Speaks of Love (Just pictures, nothing to read) 
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The Captivating Vilma Banky
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Beauty and Vilma - Picture from the article, "Beauty While You Wait"
-- Excerpts from Advice to June Brides 
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Valentino & Vilma (Just pictures, nothing to read)
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Movie Stars on Honeymoon: Rod & Vilma
-- Vilma Banky Here: Prefers Silent Movie to Talking Variety
-- A Letter Signed by Vilma to the Palmolive Company
-- The Awakening Herald & Clipping 
-- Newspaper Clipping from The Dark Angel
-- Vilma: Popular in Europe
-- Vilma Banky Becomes a Citizen
-- Stars Who Have Vanished (Just pictures, nothing to read; Vilma is Picture #12)
**NEW -- The Americanization of Vilma Banky (just a picture to promote her latest picture)
**NEW
-- Success Did Not Spoil Vilma Banky
**NEW -- Vilma Makes Her Citizenship Official
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Vilma Banky's 1992 Obituary

Ship Manifests
-- Rod & Vilma Sailing Back from Rotterdam; July 21, 1933 (Presumably coming back after filming S.O.S. Iceberg & The Rebel respectively)
-- Vilma Sailing from France; September 10, 1930 (Coming home after a visit with her family)
-- Rod & Vilma Sailing from Southampton; February 19, 1937
-- Vilma's Arrival to America, Sailing from Cherbourg on the Aquitania; March 04, 1925 (Note that Konscics is listed as her surname, but someone has scribbled in Banky to the side)
-- Rod & Vilma Sailing from Cherbourg; March 27, 1928 (Returning from Vilma's first visit home and Rod's visit to meet his new in-laws)
Biography -- vILMaGRAPHY [films] -- Glimpses of Vilma [pictures] -- Rod la Rocque -- Movie Reviews -- Extant Films -- Vilma's Friends
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Links -- Obituaries -- Mystery of Vilma's Birth -- Meeting Vilma: Search for a Star -- Off Screen & At Home -- Documentation
-----CAN YOU HELP ME FIND these following articles?
     - "The Americanization of Vilma Banky" in
Vanity Fair, March 1928 
- "A Beautiful Blonde" in
Picturegoer, November 1926
- "The Awakening" article in
Screen Book, 1929 (Banky cover)
- Interview in
Movie Magazine, March 1926 (Banky cover)
Please
e-mail me if you can provide me with these articles. I would be more than happy to pay!
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