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Sonja Henie, blonde Norwegian ... Until shortly before her death, Miss Henie had remained socially active and continued to direct the activities of the $3.5 million art museum she and her husband ...
Now almost forgotten, Sonja Henie was the dimpled Norwegian Olympics champion who brought glamor and big box office to ice skating through her movie musicals and lavishly staged ”Hollywood Ice ...
But 25 years after her death at age 57, Sonja Henie is rarely remembered in her native Norway. There is a museum on the outskirts of Oslo that bears her name, her collection of modern art pieces ...
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 an oddity, as movie stars go. The bubbly Norwegian cutie shot to international stardom at the age of 15 in 1928 as the winner of the Olympic gold medal for figure skating, a feat ...
In the mid-1970s, his mother showed him a Henie scrapbook she had made when she was a girl. "I have no use for it. I'll toss it," a Jan. 23, 1994, Star Tribune article quoted Marie Kienitz as saying.
As an 11-year-old in Oklahoma, Roy Blakey became mesmerized by the brilliance of the Olympic figure skating champion Sonja Henie when he watched her 1941 film, “Sun Valley Serenade.”. One ...
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.
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.
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.
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. Henie ...