— Sonja Henie. OSLO, Norway — She was the first to spin, the first to jump, the first to be crowned a figure skating ice queen. She wore jewels during practice and plumes during competition.

Sonja Henie in 1930, before she launched her Hollywood film career. The Winter Olympics seem an appropriate occasion to revisit the film career of Sonja Henie, who won Gold medals for ice skating ...

Sonja Henie said she wanted to do for skating what Fred Astaire had done for dancing and it’s fair to say she achieved her ambition to a quite remarkable degree. Born, appropriately enough ...

PyeongChang 2018 marks 90 years since Sonja Henie’s first of three gold medals for Norway. She has the most career medals – and most career gold medals – of any female figure skater.

Sonja Henie was never a nervous ingenue. She didn’t beg to be loved; she expected it. After all, between gold medals, she’d racked up 10 consecutive World Championships, ...

On March 6, 1952, an enthusiastic crowd of 7,000 jammed Baltimore’s 5th Regiment Armory to attend the opening of Sonja Henie’s “1952 Ice Revue.” The three-time Olympic gold … ...

Probably very few people today remember Sonja Henie, an Olympic figure skating champion and a Hollywood movie star for about a decade, beginning in the 1930s.

We continue our series, the Adirondack Attic, with Andy Flynn. NCPR is collaborating with Andy and his sources at the Adirondack Museum and other historical associations and museums in the region ...

Hulten’s chief rival during her competitive days was Henie, the three-time Olympic champion known as the “Ice Queen of Norway.” Hulten was fifth to Henie in the 1932 Olympics, third to Henie ...

NEW HOPE, PA. — John R. Walsh, who toured professionally as the figure-skating partner of Olympic champion Sonja Henie, died Thursday from complications following a stroke. He was 85. Walsh also ...