Sonja Henie

Actor, Skater

About

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Birth Place

Oslo, , NO

Born

April 08, 1912

Died

October 12, 1969

Cause of Death

Leukemia

Biography

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Winner of the Olympic Gold medal in figure skating an impressive three times in a row (1928, 1932, 1936), Henie came to Twentieth Century-Fox shortly after her last win and was built up as a popular star. Nearly a dozen light musical comedies offered the blonde and dimpled Henie plenty of opportunities to don her blades and perform in lavish ice ballets while her leading men beamed and a...

Filmography

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The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Karen [Kirsten]

It's a Pleasure! (1945)

Wintertime (1943)

Katina Jonsdottir

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Second Fiddle (1939)

Photos & Videos

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Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That Must Be Her Chest Measurement

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Happened In Sun Valley

Family & Companions

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Daniel R Topping

Husband

Divorced.

Winthrop Gardiner Jr

Husband

Second husband; divorced; died in 1980.

Niels Onstad

Husband

Third husband; died in 1978.

Notes

Won Gold Medal in Women's figure skating in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympics

Biography

Winner of the Olympic Gold medal in figure skating an impressive three times in a row (1928, 1932, 1936), Henie came to Twentieth Century-Fox shortly after her last win and was built up as a popular star. Nearly a dozen light musical comedies offered the blonde and dimpled Henie plenty of opportunities to don her blades and perform in lavish ice ballets while her leading men beamed and a cast of supporting comics clowned around. When her film career petered out in the mid-1940s she turned to performing in live ice shows.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)

Karen [Kirsten]

It's a Pleasure! (1945)

Wintertime (1943)

Katina Jonsdottir

Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Second Fiddle (1939)

Everything Happens at Night (1939)

Louise [Norden]

My Lucky Star (1938)

Kristina Nielson

Happy Landing (1938)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

One in a Million (1937)

Thin Ice (1937)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Moon Is Down (1943)

Technical Advisor

Cast (Special)

Sonja Henie's Holiday on Ice (1956)

Spotlight (1954)

Cast (Short)

The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924 (1924)

Life Events

1927

World skating champion at age 15

1936

Joined 20th Century-Fox as a skating star; first US film, "One in a Million"

1943

Last film for Fox, "Wintertime"

1945

First and only film in color, "It's a Pleasure", released by RKO

1948

Last film, "The Countess of Monte Cristo"

1960

Retired from performing

Photo Collections

Sun Valley Serenade - Movie Posters

Sun Valley Serenade - Movie Posters

Videos

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) That Must Be Her Chest Measurement At Ellis Island on a publicity stunt, big band pianist Ted (John Payne), manager Nifty (Milton Berle) and bandleader Phil (Glenn Miller, the bandleader), arrive to pick up their kid war orphan, who turns out to be Sonja Henie, in Twentieth Century-Fox's It Happened In Sun Valley, 1941.

Sun Valley Serenade (1941) -- (Movie Clip) It Happened In Sun Valley Promo here for the Idaho resort, Glenn Miller's band with an original by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon, Milton Berle and Joan Davis schtick and Sonja Henie, in her first skating scene, tries to impress pianist Ted (John Payne), who is her legal adoptive guardian, in Sun Valley Serenade, 1941.

It's A Pleasure (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Our Petite Star This is between periods at a professional hockey game, the three-time Olympic gold medalist in her second-to-last feature, the first skate for Sonja Henie as performer "Chris," Michael O'Shea her athlete-admirer in the stands, in early in It's A Pleasure, 1945.

It's A Pleasure (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Improvise Something Filling in for her troubled (actually drunk) stunt-skater boyfriend, "Chris" (Sonja Henie) is persuaded by promoter pal Buzz (Bill Johnson) to come up with a routine, in It's A Pleasure, 1945.

Sun Valley Serenade - (Re-issue trailer) A Norwegian war orphan (Sonja Henie) adopted by a pianist as a publicity stunt turns out to be a beautiful young woman in Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

Companions

Daniel R Topping

Husband

Divorced.

Winthrop Gardiner Jr

Husband

Second husband; divorced; died in 1980.

Niels Onstad

Husband

Third husband; died in 1978.

Bibliography

Notes

Won Gold Medal in Women's figure skating in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympics

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