VILMA BANKY

 

From Stars of the Photoplay (1930)

BEAUTIFUL blonde wife of Rod La Rocque was well-known on the stage and screen in Budapest, Vienna and Berlin. She was discovered by Samuel Goldwyn and brought to America in 1925. Her mother was a famous stage star in Hungary. Vilma, whose real name is Banky Vilma, was born in Nagydorog, near Budapest, Hungary, January 9, 1903, and has one sister and one brother. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs 120 and has grey eyes. She became an American citizen in May, 1929.

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