Sonja Henie 1912-1969 - A 40th Anniversary Tribute - The SuperStar Years

Most tributes to Sonja Henie has naturally focused on her outstandig career as an iceskater; 10 times a world champion and 3 times Olympic Gold Medalist.

I wanna focus on the very fact that she was and remains the most famous Norwegian woman of the 20th century. She was a superstar in her own right and here you`ll see proof of that very fact.

I love Hollywood glamour and no one outranked her in that department...

Here she is pictured with Don Ameche, Cesar Romero, Ethel Merman(in the 1938 Happy Landing), social functions with Joan Crawford, Romero, Ameche, Peter Lorre, Cole Porter, Clark Gable, King Olav V of Norway and his wife Martha, Harald and Sonja(at the opening of the Henie-Onstad-Arts Center 1968), Marcel Cerdan, Edith Piaf, Donald Duck in The Autograph Hound 1939 and Tyrone Power in the 1937 Thin Ice.

She is also pictured with her 3d husband Niels Onstad 1909-1978 as she puts down the foundation stone in what was to be the Henie-Onstad Art Center in 1968 and the grand opening featuring the Norwegian Royal Family.

At last, Miss Henie and Mr Onstad`s grave at the center and her statue at the Frogner Stadium.

I am pictured with it in 2008.

Henning Sebastian Jahre.

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• Sonja Henie
• Clark Gable
• Joan Crawford
• Shirley Temple
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Ingrid Bergman
• Ethel Merman
• King Olav V
• Harald
• Sonja
• Norway
• Norge
• Edith Piaf
• Cole Porter
• Tyrone Power
• Frogner
• Carole Landis

[antonialive]

its so beutiful, i like your videos

[MGMpresentsSEB]

@antonialive You are most kind:-)

[faeryquene]

A beautiful tribute to the greatest female Ice Skating Champion of all time. :)

[MGMpresentsSEB]

@faeryquene Thank you so much:-)

[ForumRiverPhoenix]

very beautiful.5 stars =)

[MGMpresentsSEB]

thank you so much:-)))

[liana563]

why they do not upload full movies instead of photos and cheesy musics all the time

[tschilla2]

I like this video very much

[moeguy9999]

Sonja made skateing look so easy. She brought the sport into peoples hearts too. My own mother reminded me a lot of Sonja. She also could skate and ski,better then average. World War 2,completely changed that life. My Mom,escaped from her country,and did it on skis.

[Bruno47602]

Нет не одной русской свиньи в этом сообществе

[gondolerofeliz]

Precioso video, refleja una vida muy interesante.

[HattieLovesCattie]

@KarinPluss I liked Maureen in the movies with John Wayne.I used to live near where John Wayne lived in Calif.,( between L A and San Diego ).

[KarinPluss]

@HattieLovesCattie Joan Fontaine just celebrated her 94th birthday, de Havilland is indeed born in 1916, yes. Luise is a 100 years old and resides in London, though she was in the States attending a film festival in spring. Maureen has been celebrating her 90th this summer/autumn and is still going strong - thank God! She lives back in her native Ireland and she is still as beautiful and feisty as ever, I can tell you =)

[HattieLovesCattie]

@KarinPluss No,Maureen was born in 1920 and de Havilland,1916.

[HattieLovesCattie]

@KarinPluss I just looked up those old ladies.deHavilland is 90 I think and Rainer is 100 today.Is she living in America or her native Austria?As for Maureen,she was born in 1916.

[KarinPluss]

@HattieLovesCattie There are stilla few other ones left as well, like The deHavilland/Fontaine sisters, Luise Rainer and my personal favourite - Maureen O'Hara, but yes; it's more and more a forgotten era.