Vilma Bánky was a Hungarian actress who achieved success in the 1920s, appearing in Hungarian, Austrian, and French films. In 1925, she was signed to a Hollywood contract by Samuel Goldwyn in Budapest, and was given the nickname "The Hungarian Rhapsody" in Hollywood.
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💰 Net worth
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This Is Heaven (1929)
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$5,000 /week |
Vilma Bánky 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". In the mid and late 1920s she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, especially playing with Ronald Colman. Her best-known works were with Rudolph Valentino: daughter of a Russian aristocrat in De adelaar (1925) and an Arab dancer in The Son of the Sheik (1926). Her first talking movie was This Is Heaven (1929). She toured the U.S. in "Cherries Are Ripe" with her husband Rod La Rocque in 1930-1 and, the next year, went with him to Germany to make her last film.
