A Lady to Love was filmed in 1930 and was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was ten reels in length and was from Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize play, They Knew What They Wanted. Of course, by this time, it was all-talking and it was Vilma's second talkie. Directed by Victor Seastrom, it starred along with Vilma, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard Carle, Lloyd Ingraham, and Anderson Lawler. The German version of A Lady to Love titled Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau, was filmed immediately after the English version and used the same sets. In the German version, the main character's name was Mizzi instead of Lena. The German version starred Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Reicher, William Bechtel, and Conrad Seidemann.

Excerpt from The World of Yesterday by Charles K. Stumpf
"Freed of her contract to Goldwyn, Miss Banky moved to the MGM lot to co-star with Edward G. Robinson in A Lady to Love, an adaptation of Sidney Howard's play, They Knew What They Wanted.

In his autobiography All My Yesterdays, Mr. Robinson recalled the film: 'Â…We plunged into the middle of the film, and it did not take long to realize that Miss Banky was seriously out of her depth. The glorious creature, playing a mail-order-bride, complete with marcelled hair and a custom-made housedress, and still the shimmering beauty she was with Ronald Colman in so many silent films, was seized with stagefright and inability.

My heart went out to her, and I tried to help. Robert Ames (another member of the cast) tried, too. Mr. Seastrom was as frightened as Miss Banky. The cutter (one of the unsung heroes of films) managed somehow to find some passable takes of Miss Banky that showed her to her best advantage, and for the first time I came to understand a very significant factor in film-making - that your performance can be improved by a pair of scissors.'

Mr. Robinson termed the finished film 'a horror' - however, he found the off-screen Miss Banky 'entrancing'. A German version of the film was titled: Die Sehnsucht Jeder Frau."

Despite some unfavorable reviews and the trouble on the set, A Lady to Love is a very charming film. At first, one is surprised to hear Vilma's voice. It is a very deep and throaty accent, but not impossible to understand. In fact, one grows to like it. A particularly amusing scene is the one in which Vilma begins bathing the temporarily bed-bound Edward G. Robinson.

While Vilma is furiously scrubbing him, he is protesting and squirming and pushing her away. The audience eventually finds themselves warming to the strange love story.