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 ...

18/02/2015 - Anne Sewitsky’s biopic on the figure skater, who became one of the highest-paid film stars in 1930s Hollywood, will shoot from 2016 film profile] – which just unspooled at the Sundance ...

Narrated by Cliff Robertson The daughter of a fur wholesaler, Sonja Henie received her first pair of ice skates when she was six. Eight years later, she was the Norwegian Skating Champion. At 15, she ...

(Reuters) - Oslo's shock April snowfall of 1912 is remembered as one of the city's more memorable events of the last century, but it pales in comparison to the emergence of Sonja Henie, the precocious ...