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Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:

A far cry from the days when Sonja Henie was one of
the highest paid movie stars in Hollywood, starring
and skating in fifteen hit films.

Can you name any of these? I've never heard of
SH. Probably before my time... .

Mine too, but I watch a lot of old films...

Sonja Henie Films:
1927 Syv dager for Elisabeth (Seven Days for Elizabeth)
1929 Se Norge
1936 One in a Million
1937 Thin Ice ("Der Komet" in Canada, "Lovely to Look at" in UK)
1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town
1938 Happy Landing
1938 My Lucky Star
1939 Second Fiddle
1939 Til Vesterheimen
1939 Everything Happens at Night
1939 Stars at the Tropical Ice Gardens
1941 Sun Valley Serenade
1942 Iceland ("Katina" in UK)
1943 Wintertime
1944 Take It or Leave It (Uncredited clip from "One in a Million.")
1945 It's a Pleasure
1948 The Countess of Monte Cristo
1958 Hello London ("London Calling" in UK)
1965 Inside Daisy Clover (Uncredited archive footage)


From Wikipedia:
Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969) was a
Norwegian figure skater and actress. She is a three-time
Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936), a ten-time World
Champion (1927-1936) and a six-time European Champion
(1931-1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles
than any other ladies figure skater. At the height
of her acting career she was one of the highest paid
movie stars in Hollywood.

Henie won her first major competition, the senior
Norwegian championships, at the age of 9. She then
placed eighth in a field of eight at the 1924 Winter
Olympics, at the age of eleven. During the 1924
program, she skated over to the side of the rink
several times to ask her coach for directions.
But by the next Olympiad, she needed no such
assistance. Henie won the first of an unprecedented
ten World Figure Skating Championships in 1927 at
the age of fourteen, and her first Olympic gold
medal the following year. She also won six
consecutive European championships.

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