#Vilma Bánky

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I know they're out of the running but can we talk about the way Ronald looks at Vilma in this picture 😳

i wasn't going to post this because i think they've had quite enough but god DAMN

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Vilma Bánky in The Magic Flame (1927), a lost film.

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Vilma Bánky in The Son of the Sheik (1926) Dir. George Fitzmaurice

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At least one reel of The Dark Angel survives!

The Dark Angel (1925) dir. George Fitzmaurice, starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky, was long thought lost, but according to some sources I came across it was recently found. As I could not find any additional information, I decided to contact the Moving Image Research Center of the Library of Congress to ask about its survival status.

According to the answer I received, the Library of Congress has one reel out of eight of the film! The reel has been digitised in 4K and is available for viewing if you visit their research centre in person.

Of course I hoped they'd have a full print, but it is still very exciting news that some of the film survives! Let's hope more of the film will be discovered.

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The Winning of Barbara Worth

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off topic from the polls but I am completely deranged + obsessed over all of this

In 1963 photographer Bert Stern photographed some of the top actors/actresses at the height of their fame playing their dream roles for a photo series in LIFE magazine's December 20, 1963 issue.

Cary Grant as Charlie Chaplin's Tramp / Audrey Hepburn as Pearl White in 'Perils of Pauline' / Tony Curtis & Natalie Wood as Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky in 'The Sheik' / Paul Newman as a Douglas Fairbanks Sr. swashbuckler / Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin as Judah Ben-Hur and Messala from 'Ben-Hur' / Bing Crosby & Bob Hope as 1930s gangsters / Jack Lemmon as a war pilot / Shirley MacLaine as one of Busby Berkeley's showgirls / Rock Hudson as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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Vilma Bánky and Rudolph Valentino in George Fitzmaurice‘s THE SON OF THE SHEIK (1926)

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Still from the American adventure film 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒈𝒍𝒆 (1925) with Vilma Bánky. Bánky was loaned by the Samuel Goldwyn Corp. for the film.

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Propaganda

Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, Diary of a Lost Girl)—Louise Brooks started off as a dancer and went to work in the Follies before going to Hollywood. Disappointed with her roles there, she went to Germany and proceeded to make Pandora's Box, the first film to show a lesbian on-screen (not her but one of her many doomed admirers in the film), and Diary of a Lost Girl, both of which are considered two of the greatest films of the 20th century. She helped popularize the bob and natural acting, acting far more subtly than her contemporaries who treated the camera as a stage audience. After the collapse of her film career and a remarkably rough patch as a high-end sex worker, she was rediscovered and did film criticism, notably "Lulu in Hollywood," which Rodger Ebert called "indispensable." Also, christ. Look at her.

Vilma Bánky (The Son of the Sheik, The Eagle)—She's famous now for being a silent star ruined by the transition to talkies, unlike her frequent co-star Ronald Colman. I think that's a shame, as she has a real vivaciousness and charm in The Winning of Barbara Worth. In this *checks notes* western about environmental engineering, she rides around the desert and gets wooed by both Colman and a young Gary Cooper (good for her dot gif.) Even in stills from films that are sadly lost, I think there is a distinctive warmth and individuality to her. Also she is extremely hot in her extremely pre-Code dress in The Magic Flame.

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Louise Brooks:

"Defined the style of the modern flapper. A gaze that could make a stone fall in love."

"Louise Brooks left a legend far greater than her real achievement as an actress, but even today few people have seen her films. In our own time, the fascination with Brooks seems to have begun in 1979 with a profile by Kenneth Tynan in the New Yorker, which revealed that the actress who made her last movie in 1938 was alive and living in Rochester, N.Y. Such was the power of Tynan's prose that people began to seek out her existing films, primarily this one, to discover what the fuss was about. What we see here is a healthy young woman -- she was 23 when the film was released -- with whom the camera, under G.W. Pabst's influence, is fascinated. There is a deep paradox in Brooks and her career: the American girl who found success in the troubled Europe between two wars; the vivid personality who briefly dazzled two continents but faded into obscurity; the liberated woman who had affairs with such prominent men as CBS founder William S. Paley as well as with women including (by her account) Greta Garbo but wound up a solitary recluse. And all of this seems perfectly in keeping with her most celebrated role in Pandora's Box. For despite her bright vitality, her flashing dark eyes and brilliant smile, Brooks's Lulu becomes the ultimate femme fatale, careering her way toward destruction, not only of her lovers but eventually of herself."

"She invented having bangs to indicate that you have borderline personality disorder"

"chances are if youve ever seen a "flapper girl" character or even just art of a generic flapper type made after the 20s it was based on her appearance - particularly the bob hairstyle! she had some pretty rough experiences through her life before during and after her tumultuous acting career which ended in 1938 but she made it to the 80s, wrote an autobiography and did a lot of interviews that she was never afraid of being honest in about her own life or peers of the age, and apparently was unabashed about some affairs she had with well known women (including greta garbo!!)"

"She read Proust and Schopenhauer on set between sets. She was one of the original flappers/new women of the 1920s. She had a one night stand with Garbo and was the inspiration for Sally Bowles in Cabaret. Truly a stone cold fox."

"on her wikipedia page it says her biographer said she "loved women as a homosexual man, rather than as a lesbian, would love them" and while i have no idea if this is true or not i thought that was very gender of her"

"despite being american she was big in german expressionist films and thus her aesthetic was unmatched!!"

So far ahead of her time in regard to portraying complicated women. Timeless elegance. "I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.” - Louise Brooks

Vilma Bánky:

I love Vilma Bánky! She was called "the Hungarian Rhapsody" and apparently had a thick Hungarian accent which I think is cute. Several men fighting over the same women can be very cliche but when I saw her in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926) I got it because my god she really is that drop dead gorgeous. She's also a wonderful actress though, expressive yet natural. I read once that seeing her in The Dark Angel (1925)—a film now seemingly lost—inspired Merle Oberon to become an actress :)

This is more of a factoid but she was apparently the women's golf champion at Wilshire Country Club through the 1940s. [link] I just think she's neat.

I love herrrrr she’s my everything. Watching her kiss Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik made me so flustered I had to pause the movie to cool down. She’s the prettiest the most beautiful the most incredible woman I’ve ever seen. I could look at a picture of her for hours

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Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman, The Magic Flame (1927)

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Here are 10 things you should know about Vilma Bánky, born 124 years ago today. She enjoyed great success in her brief screen career.

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Vilma Bánky in The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)

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All my hopes and dreams are crushed. The Magic Flame (1927) really appears to be lost. I've seen sources that claim that some of reels are at the MoMA, others that they're at the George Eastman House, but I've contacted both and they're not there...

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Vilma Bánky in a publicity photo for The Son of the Sheik (1926).

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2021: Elsa Peretti, è stata una designer di gioielli e filantropa italiana, nonché una modella. I suoi gioielli e pezzi di design per Tiffany & Co. , sono inclusi nella collezione del XX secolo del British Museum, del Museum of Fine Arts, Boston e del Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Elsa non si è mai sposata e la relazione più lunga è stata quella con Stefano Magini. (n. 1940) 2014: Ottavio…