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Job Actress
Top Roles Herself, Karen Benson, Greta 'Gretchen' Muller, Trudi Hovland, Lili Heiser
Top Genres Comedy, Romance, Musical, Drama, Fantasy, Film Adaptation
Top Topics Show Business, Mistaken Identity, Royalty, Exotic Lands, Hotels
Top Collaborators Cesar Romero, Tyrone Power, Darryl F. Zanuck (Producer), Jack Oakie, Arthur Treacher, Joan Davis, Maurice Cass, John Payne
Also Born on April 8
Also Born in 1912
Also an Aries

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Ali Baba Goes to Town
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Role: Herself

1937
Director:
David Butler

Ali Baba Goes to Tow...

Fan rating: 9.00
Sun Valley Serenade
Sun Valley Serenade
Role: Karen Benson

1941
Director:
H. Bruce Humberstone

Sun Valley Serenade

Fan rating: 7.50
One In a Million
One In a Million
Role: Greta 'Gretchen' Muller

1936
Director:
Sidney Lanfield

One In a Million

Fan rating: 6.50
Second Fiddle
Second Fiddle
Role: Trudi Hovland

1939
Director:
Directed by Sidney Lanfield

Second Fiddle

Fan rating: 6.50
Thin Ice
Thin Ice
Role: Lili Heiser

1937
Director:
Sidney Lanfield

Thin Ice

Fan rating: 6.33

Sonja Henie Overview:

Legendary actress, Sonja Henie, was born on Apr 8, 1912 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. Henie died at the age of 57 on Oct 12, 1969 in en route by air to Oslo, Norway and was laid to rest in Hilltop overlooking the Henie-Onstad Museum Cemetery in Oslo, Norway.

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Blonde, Norwegian-born Olympic champion with winning smile who went to America and did for ice in the thirties what Esther Williams did for water in the forties. Died from leukemia, on board an airplane bound for her native city, Oslo.

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She was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures. Sonja Henie's handprints and footprints were 'set in stone' at Grauman's Chinese Theater during imprint ceremony #38 on Jun 28, 1937. Henie was never nominated for an Academy Award.

Sonja Henie BlogHub Articles:

45th Annual Seattle International Film Festival: A Norwegian Biopic of Ice Skating Star Sonja Henie

By KC on May 23, 2019 From Classic Movies

Sonja: the White Swan (2019) is a biopic of skating star Sonja Henie, who made records as an athlete and sparkled briefly, but potently as a movie queen in Hollywood musicals. I don’t know enough about this phenomenally successful athlete/actress to be able to say whether it succeeded in telli... Read full article

Olympics to Hollywood: Sonja Henie

on Feb 21, 2018 From Comet Over Hollywood

Sonja Henie She was the youngest competitor in the first Winter Olympics, the first woman to win three Olympic gold medals, and one Hollywood’s top-grossing stars. Norwegian athlete turned actress Sonja Henie skated across the silver screen in 12 films, bringing a novelty to films and helping popu... Read full article

Sonja Henie - A Cutting Edge Millionaire

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 17, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Sonja Henie, the dimple-faced Norwegian skating sensation of the 1930s, shot to stardom when she appeared in her first motion picture for 20th Century Fox - One in a Million - in 1936. In less than a year she became the eighth most popular actress at the box office, but according to a Motion Picture... Read full article

Sonja Henie - A Cutting Edge Millionaire

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 17, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Sonja Henie, the dimple-faced Norwegian skating sensation of the 1930s, shot to stardom when she appeared in her first motion picture for 20th Century Fox - One in a Million - in 1936. In less than a year she became the eighth most popular actress at the box office, but according to a Motion Picture... Read full article

Sonja Henie - A Cutting Edge Millionaire

By The Metzinger Sisters on Jan 17, 2015 From Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers

Sonja Henie, the dimple-faced Norwegian skating sensation of the 1930s, shot to stardom when she appeared in her first motion picture for 20th Century Fox - One in a Million - in 1936. In less than a year she became the eighth most popular actress at the box office, but according to a Motion Picture... Read full article

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Sonja Henie Facts
Became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1941.
Henie won the first of an unprecedented ten consecutive World Figure Skating Championships in 1927 at the age of fourteen. Henie went on to win the first of her three Olympic gold medals the following year. She defended her Olympic titles in 1932 and in 1936, and her World titles annually until 1936. She also won six consecutive European championships from 1931 to 1936.
The photograph of her shaking hands with Adolf Hitler was taken at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games in Germany, and Hitler - being the host nations leader - naturally met several contestants. In that context many claim it's not fair to really judge any of the athletes who encountered Hitler at the games, while others claim Henie should have refused to shake his hand. It is of course easy to judge in retrospect, knowing what we know today of Hitler's later crimes against humanity.
10 time World Champion Women's Figure Skating according to A&E Biography
She was the youngest Olympic skating champion - 15 years and 10 months of age when she won the 1928 gold medal. This record was beaten only in 1998 by a two-month younger American 'Tara Lipinski'.
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