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 in ...

Sonja Henie set the standard by which women's figure skaters are judged to this day. The Norwegian skater dominated the sport in the 1930s. She won gold medals in the women's singles event in St.

Sonja Henie’s Autographed Ice Skates, c. 1945, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History During the late 1920s and 1930s, Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie introduced the trend of white ...

When Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie zipped into Hollywood, she was a talent the industry had never seen before, or since — a three-time Olympic ladies’ singles champion (a record she continues to ...

When you see those graceful figure skaters perform at the Winter Games in Sochi — with their athleticism and their big-money endorsement deals — for better or worse, Sonja Henie paved the way. Henie ...

Photo of crews responding to a single-vehicle crash in Lynchburg on April 25. PyeongChang 2018 marks 90 years since Sonja Henie’s first of three gold medals for Norway. She has the most career medals ...

Norwegian helmer Anne Sewitsky, whose latest film “Homesick” opened at Sundance, is on board to direct “Queen of Ice,” a biopic of the famed ice skater-turned-Hollywood star Sonja Henie. Sewitsky is ...

Sonja Henie, blonde Norwegian figure skater who dominated the rink for a decade and then skated her way to a second fabulous career in films, died Sunday of leukemia. She was 57. Miss Henie, ill for ...