SKU: S-BANKY-002

Vintage original 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm.) U.S. "fan photo" of silent film actress Vilma Banky with a facsimile of her signature, very fine condition with slight wear to the right upper and lower corners. "Fan Photos" were issued by the studios upon request of the "fans," usually for the price of a quarter. Actress Vilma Banky 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. Through the mid to late 1920s, she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker and made numerous films with fellow Goldwyn star Ronald Colman. Her best-known works were with Rudolph Valentino: as the daughter of a Russian aristocrat in "The Eagle" (1925) and an Arab dancer in "The Son of the Sheik" (1926). Her first sound film was "This Is Heaven" (1929). She toured the U.S. in "Cherries Are Ripe" with her husband, actor Rod La Rocque, in 1930-1 and, the following year, went with him to Germany to make her last film.