Monday, August the 9th, 2004
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Chapter eight of Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From The Stars mentions the Hungarian star of the silver screen Vilma Banky. Shamefully, David Thomson's otherwise essential Biographical Dictionary Of Film doesn't mention her; he skips straight from Tallulah Bankhead to Theda Bara. The latter, of course, was born Theodosia Goodman, and her screen name is an anagram of “Arab Death”. Vilma Banky was born Vilma Lonchit in Nagydorog in Hungary in 1898 and lived to the ripe old age of 93. Here is a tacky yet somehow appealing graphic which links to a tacky yet somehow appealing website about her: