Biography: Sonja Henie |
Upon receiving a pair of skates for her sixth birthday, Norwegian entertainer Sonja Henie decided to forego a dancing career for a life on the ice. To refine her technique, Henie continued taking ballet lessons, at one point studying with a former... more
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The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Comedy
Length: 77min
This musical tells the tales of two movie extras who abscond to an expensive resort with their costumes and pretend to be aristocrats. Included in the film are ice skating numbers and songs. Songs include: &"The Friendly Polka," &"Count Your...
Tags: Comedy Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 90min
It's a Pleasure was the third release from International Pictures, the feisty independent that would later merge with Universal. Skating sensation Sonja Henie does her usual as ice-show star Chris Linden, who falls in love with hockey champ Don Martin...
Tags: Musical Drama Musical Romance Musical
Length: 82min
In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and her millionaire uncle Hjallmar (S. Z. Sakall) are sweet-talked into investing in a failing resort...
Cast: Jack Oakie
Tags: Musical Romance Musical Romance
Length: 79min
When the US marines land in Iceland during WW2, camp lothario John Payne wastes no time scoping out the local female population. He makes a casual pass at skating champ Sonja Henie, only to discover that she has taken his attentions as a marriage...
Cast: Milton Berle
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical Romantic Comedy
Length: 86min
Skating star Sonja Henie and the Glenn Miller Orchestra share the spotlight in Sun Valley Serenade. Henie plays a Norwegian refugee adopted by band pianist John Payne, who mistakenly thought that the full-grown Miss Henie was a 10-year-old little...
Everything Happens at Night (1939)
Cast: Robert Cummings Ray Milland
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Romance
Length: 77min
20th Century Fox's Christmas gift to moviegoers in 1939, this fanciful comedy-drama features the studio's darling of the ice, Sonja Henie. She plays the daughter of a Nobel Peace Prize-winner feared murdered by the German Gestapo. A couple of rival...
Cast: Sonja Henie Don Ameche Darryl F. Zanuck Cesar Romero Jean Hersholt
Length: 102min
Happy Landing was another Sonja Henie moneyspinner from the 20th Century-Fox film factory. The story gets under way when skirt-chasing bandleader Duke Sargent (Cesar Romero) pitches woo to Trudy Ericksen (Sonja Henie) while on a tour of Norway. To...
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 84min
Sonja Henie is the "lucky star" in this enjoyable 20th Century-Fox musical. Henie plays Kristina Nelson a humble department store sales clerk who is spotted while skating by George Cabot Jr. (Cesar Romero_, son of the store's owner. George is so taken...
Cast: Tyrone Power Arthur Treacher
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Romance
Length: 78min
Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie reached an early pinnacle with this omantic comedy co-starring Tyrone Power as a Ruritanian prince impersonating an American reporter. They fall in love, of course, and the whirlwind romance threatens to interrupt...
Cast: Adolphe Menjou
Tags: Romantic Comedy Musical Comedy Musical
Length: 80min
Norwegian skating sensation Sonja Henie made her Hollywood screen debut in the splashy 20th Century-Fox musical One in a Million. While preparing for the 1936 Winter Olympics, Swiss skater Greta Muller (Henie) is discovered by American theatrical...
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