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9 unusual facts about Sonja Henie


Arthur Wirtz

Wirtz was an important showbiz figure with his presentation of the Sonja Henie Ice Show, which toured arenas for many years.

Dorothy Hart

In 1948, Hart made Larceny with Shelley Winters and The Countess of Monte Cristo with Sonja Henie, both for Universal Pictures.

Grosvenor House Hotel

Sonja Henie, Cecilia Colledge, and other famous skaters frequently displayed their skill.

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

It would be two years before Twardowski appeared in another movie and that was a small part in the romance Thin Ice starring Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power.

Hello London

Hello London is a 1958 documentary film starring Sonja Henie and Michael Wilding.

It's a Pleasure

It's a Pleasure is a 1945 film starring Sonja Henie.

Karl Tunberg

His first feature film was You Can't Have Everything (1937), after which he provided scripts for several comedies and musicals featuring such stars as Betty Grable, Sonja Henie, Deanna Durbin, Dorothy Lamour and Shirley Temple.

S. S. Van Dine

On April 11, 1939, at the age of fifty-one, Wright died in New York of a heart condition exacerbated by excessive drinking, a year after the publication of an unpopular experimental novel that incorporated one of the biggest stars in radio comedy, The Gracie Allen Murder Case, and leaving a complete novelette-length story that was intended as a film vehicle for Sonja Henie and was published posthumously as The Winter Murder Case.

The DeZurik Sisters

Carolyn joined Sonja Henie's Ice Review for a year or so, afterwards returning to Minnesota for a series of appearances on radio station KSTP-AM.


Howdy Mr. Ice

Howdy Mr. Ice was one of a series of ice shows at the Center Theatre in Rockefeller Center, New York City that was produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz in the 1940s.


see also

Wintertide

Wintertime, 1943 musical film starring Sonja Henie and Cesar Romero